[ovs-dev] [PATCH v5 1/2] nsh: add new flow key 'ttl'

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Thu Aug 31 16:27:36 UTC 2017


On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:23:34AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 02:21:01AM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
> > IETF NSH draft will be approved by end of August, NSH header
> > format has been finalized and won't be change anymore, so we
> > need to follow this final spec to implement nsh.
> > 
> > kernel data path also needs finalized uAPIs, they can't be
> > changed once they are merged.
> > 
> > This patch adds new nsh key 'ttl', bits of flags and mdtype
> > fields are also changed to follow the final spec.
> > 
> > A new action dec_nsh_ttl will be added in the following patch.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang at intel.com>
> 
> This is a large change to just update the wire format.  Can you make it
> more minimal?

Actually, let's skip it.  I think that we should release OVS 2.8 as is.
We delayed the release mostly to get NSH in, because Jan said that it
was important to them, but then it turns out that the NSH protocol is
still changing?  What a waste.  I will not make that mistake again.


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