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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:29:34 -0500 From: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> To: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. Reading your website - it seems you indicate the code to be portable across other platforms. That is a noble reason - but i dont think it is good enough a reason in my opinion to have your own replicated infrastructure on top of Linux. cheers, jamal On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 07:20 -0500, jamal wrote: > > So the last time we had a discussion on this on the list, we seemed > to agree that you could use the tc classifier-action infrastructure. > For simplicity, we agreed you will need to do a speacilized classifier. > You may need to add a few more actions. What happened since? > > You are replicating a lot of code and semantic that exist (not just on > classifier actions). You could improve the exisiting infrastructure > instead. We are eventually going to have two competing interfaces as > a result. You may only need 1 or 2 different classification schemes > today and try to justify you need it for simplicity - but in a few > months you'll need one more then another action and another and > you'll keep adding to your infrastructure. > > cheers, > jamal > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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