linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v7 05/10] net: openvswitch: add psample action

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Message-ID: <8cdb8979-b0e4-4d61-b386-550dc7ee3def@ovn.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 20:13:52 +0200
From: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>
To: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: i.maximets@....org, aconole@...hat.com, echaudro@...hat.com,
 horms@...nel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org,
 Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 05/10] net: openvswitch: add psample action

On 6/30/24 21:57, Adrian Moreno wrote:
> Add support for a new action: psample.
> 
> This action accepts a u32 group id and a variable-length cookie and uses
> the psample multicast group to make the packet available for
> observability.
> 
> The maximum length of the user-defined cookie is set to 16, same as
> tc_cookie, to discourage using cookies that will not be offloadable.
> 
> Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@...hat.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_flow.yaml | 17 ++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h          | 28 ++++++++++++++
>  net/openvswitch/Kconfig                   |  1 +
>  net/openvswitch/actions.c                 | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c            | 32 ++++++++++++++-
>  5 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks for addressing the comments!  The new name also
seems reasonable to me.

Reviewed-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>