[ovs-dev] [ovs-dev 0/2] Add offloading of multiple outputs

Simon Horman simon.horman at netronome.com
Thu Apr 12 09:12:44 UTC 2018


On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 02:18:07PM +0900, Chris Mi wrote:
> This patchset adds the offloading support of multiple outputs.
> 
> The first patch makes the actions order consistent. In previous
> implementation, the actions order is lost when offloading. If there
> is only one output, there is on problem. But if there are multiple
> outputs, some ports should see the packets before some actions and
> some ports should see the packets after some actions. So we should
> keep the actions order that OVS DP passes to TC library to make sure
> the right ports see the right packets.
> 
> The second patch is straighforward that we remove the one output
> limitation. If the output is the last action, we use TC mirred
> redirect. Otherwise, we use TC mirred mirror.

Thanks, I'm very pleased to see this. And it was doubly pleasing to see
the simplicity of the second patch, which adds the feature, with the first
patch in place.

I have applied this series to the master branch
after removing the Issue and Change-Id tags.


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