netdev - Re: [patch net-next] tc: introduce OpenFlow classifier

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Message-ID: <55189C8E.7070705@mojatatu.com>
Date:	Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:45:02 -0400
From:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
CC:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, jesse@...ira.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] tc: introduce OpenFlow classifier

On 03/27/15 08:49, Thomas Graf wrote:

> So at that point you get fairly close to cls_flow in terms
> of functionality. Not sure why you want to keep them separate.
>

IMO, it is different enough to be separate.
Flow could do more of course (as could u32) but the lookup
approaches are different. And yes, ONF will probably make a press
release if you called it the openflow classifier (fingers crossed).

cheers,
jamal
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