[ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v9] openvswitch: enable NSH support

Yang, Yi yi.y.yang at intel.com
Tue Sep 26 04:55:39 UTC 2017


On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 02:14:39AM +0800, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:16:09 +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
> > +		return err;
> > +
> > +	key->eth.type = htons(ETH_P_NSH);
> 
> I wonder why you have this assignment here. The key is invalidated,
> thus nothing should rely on key->eth.type. However, looking at the code
> and ovs_fragment in particular, I'm not sure that's the case. Could you
> please explain why it is needed? And why the reverse of it is not
> needed in pop_nsh?

After push_nsh, the packet won't be recirculated to flow pipeline, so
key->eth.type must be set explicitly here, but for pop_nsh, the packet
will be recirculated to flow pipeline, it will be reparsed, so
key->eth.type will be set in packet parse function, we needn't handle it
in pop_nsh.

I have sent out v10 to fix all the comments for v9, please review v10,
thanks a lot.


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