[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] xlate: normalize the actions after translation

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Thu Jan 4 22:25:12 UTC 2018


On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 11:58:10AM +0100, Zoltan Balogh wrote:
> When all OF actions have been translated, there could be actions at
> the end of list of odp actions which are not needed to be executed.
> So, the list can be normalized at the end of xlate_actions().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zoltan Balogh <zoltan.balogh at ericsson.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sugesh Chandran <sugesh.chandran at intel.com>
> Co-authored-by: Sugesh Chandran <sugesh.chandran at intel.com>
> CC: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>

Thanks for working on this.

Would you mind changing the terminology here?  There is nothing
"invalid" about the actions that this patch drops.  Instead, it removes
actions that don't have externally visible side effects.  Please invent
a new term.

Thanks,

Ben.


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