[ovs-dev] [PATCH v5] tunneling: Avoid recirculation on datapath by computing the recirculate actions at translate time.

[William Tu]

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Darrell Ball <dball at vmware.com> wrote:
> What are the use case(s) of truncate “outside” of sampling/mirroring ?
> The use of truncation in the context of sampling/mirroring is well known.
>
I don't know any other use cases outside sampling/mirroring.

Truncate the current packet, send to a patch port from br-int to
underlay bridge, and forward to a tunnel, seems to be a reasonable way
of using truncate and sampling/mirroring feature.

William