[ovs-discuss] mf_value and mf_subvalue size restrictions

[Madhu Challa]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 02:37:01PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> I'm curious how you ended up laying this out. The OpenFlow spec says
>> that the extra space should be used as an vendor ID in the form of an
>> OUI. How did you reconcile this?
>
> You can probably get away with a lot if you make the most significant
> byte of the extra 32 bits nonzero, because OpenFlow only specifies the
> format of the other 24 bits if that byte is zero and leaves the rest of
> the space reserved for future standardization.
>
> But that's kind of a nasty thing to do.
>
> Have you considered allowing database configuration to specify what kind
> of attributes are expected and how to parse them?  The configuration
> could be P4-based, for example.

No I have not thought of this till now. Will be a good thing to
finalize by the time we meet.

Thanks.