netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v7] openvswitch: enable NSH support

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Message-ID: <20170905110310.GB92895@cran64.bj.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 5 Sep 2017 19:03:11 +0800
From:   "Yang, Yi" <yi.y.yang@...el.com>
To:     Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
        "e@...g.me" <e@...g.me>, "blp@....org" <blp@....org>,
        "jan.scheurich@...csson.com" <jan.scheurich@...csson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7] openvswitch: enable NSH support

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:46:45AM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:51:45 +0800, Yang, Yi wrote:
> > But if we follow your way, how does nla_for_each_nested handle such
> > pattern?
> > 
> > attribute1
> > attribute1_mask
> > attribute2
> > attribute2_mask
> > attribute3
> > attribute3_mask
> 
> Uh? That will just work. Note that nla len contains the size of the
> whole attribute, i.e. includes both fields.
> 
> > I don't think this can increase performance and readability.
>

I got the point, actually value and mask are data of one attribute, so
they are three attributes but not six.