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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 09:42:54 -0400
From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...ulusnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 10/12] openvswitch: add support for datapath
hardware offload
On 08/24/14 22:24, Scott Feldman wrote:
>
> On Aug 24, 2014, at 8:15 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com> wrote:
>
>
> With respect to focus on L2/L3, I have a pretty *good* hunch someone could
> write a kernel module that gleans from the L2/L3 netlink echoes
already flying
>around and translates to sw_flows and in turn into ndo_swdev_flow_* calls.
And herein lies the fundamental disagreement.
I dont believe the flow interface is appropriate for either L2/3.
We already have some L2 interfaces (they are incomplete if you want
to capture everything a large switch does).
L3 should go the same path.
And as i said earlier, i dont think the flow interface
is appropriate as a universal classifier interface either.
You need to allow for different types of classifiers. You
need to allow for a mix and match of classifiers (although
the later could be evolutionary).
cheers,
jamal
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