[ovs-dev] [PATCH 01/31] userspace: Add OXM field MFF_PACKET_TYPE

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Thu Jun 15 15:16:15 UTC 2017


Hi Ben,

Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> writes:

> From: Jan Scheurich <jan.scheurich at ericsson.com>
>
> Allow packet type namespace OFPHTN_ETHERTYPE as alternative pre-requisite
> for matching L3 protocols (MPLS, IP, IPv6, ARP etc).
>
> Change the meta-flow definition of packet_type field to use the new
> custom format MFS_PACKET_TYPE representing "(NS,NS_TYPE)".
>
> Parsing routine for MFS_PACKET_TYPE added to meta-flow.c. Formatting
> routine for field packet_type extracted from match_format() and moved to
> flow.c to be used from meta-flow.c for formatting MFS_PACKET_TYPE.
>
> Updated the ovs-fields man page source meta-flow.xml with documentation
> for packet-type-aware bridges and added documentation for field packet_type.
>
> Added packet_type to the matching properties in tests/ofproto.at. Should be
> removed later, when packet_type_aware bridge attribute will be introduced.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Scheurich <jan.scheurich at ericsson.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>

Does this need a co-authored by?  If not, there's probably a useful
change from the checkpatch side to match From: tags with Signed-off-by:
tags (for these delivery cases to squelch the error message).

-Aaron


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