netdev - Re: openvswitch/flow WAS ( Re: [rfc] Merging the Open vSwitch datapath

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Message-ID: <20101015161823.GA5110@nicira.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:18:23 -0700
From:	Ben Pfaff <blp@...ira.com>
To:	ovs-team@...ira.com
Cc:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>, Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: openvswitch/flow WAS ( Re: [rfc] Merging the Open vSwitch
 datapath

[adding ovs-team]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 07:31:32AM -0400, jamal wrote:
> 
> Sorry, slightly off topic - and this old (catching up 
> with netdev randomly going backwards)..
> 
> I was curious after seeing the exchange with Eric D. on
> the tunnels and how you have your own tree so i glossed 
> over what your project is doing.
> 
> It seems to me that you reinvented things that exist in 
> Linux already such as bridging, tunnels and what really
> caught my attention: ability to do flows (tc actions).
> It is possible Linux is missing something you wanted or was
> not efficient enough? 
> [For example: I couldnt see anything you needed
> on flow-action management that Linux couldnt do already
> (with already very nice well structured netlink APIs)]
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