netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v11 4/6] openvswitch: add support to push and pop mpls for layer3 packets

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Date:	Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:14:34 +0900
From:	Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
To:	pravin shelar <pshelar@....org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	ovs dev <dev@...nvswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v11 4/6] openvswitch: add support to
 push and pop mpls for layer3 packets

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 01:52:47PM -0700, pravin shelar wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Simon Horman
> <simon.horman@...ronome.com> wrote:
> > Allow push and pop mpls actions to act on layer 3 packets by teaching
> > them not to access non-existent L2 headers of such packets.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
> > ---
> > v11
> > * group l2 code in pop_mpls()
> >
> > v10
> > * Limit scope of hdr in {push,pop}_mpls()
> >
> > v9
> > * New Patch
> > ---
> >  include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h |  2 ++
> >  net/openvswitch/actions.c        | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
> >  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> > index d95a3018f6a1..5cde501433eb 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> > @@ -737,6 +737,8 @@ enum ovs_nat_attr {
> >   * is no MPLS label stack, as determined by ethertype, no action is taken.
> >   * @OVS_ACTION_ATTR_CT: Track the connection. Populate the conntrack-related
> >   * entries in the flow key.
> > + * @OVS_ACTION_ATTR_PUSH_ETH: Push a new outermost Ethernet header onto the      * packet.
> > + * @OVS_ACTION_ATTR_POP_ETH: Pop the outermost Ethernet header off the packet.
> >   *
> >   * Only a single header can be set with a single %OVS_ACTION_ATTR_SET.  Not all
> >   * fields within a header are modifiable, e.g. the IPv4 protocol and fragment
> 
> This hunk is not related to this patch.

Sorry about that, I will move it.

> > diff --git a/net/openvswitch/actions.c b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
> > index 1ecbd7715f6d..12e8a8942a42 100644
> > --- a/net/openvswitch/actions.c
> > +++ b/net/openvswitch/actions.c
> ...