netdev - Re: [net-next v5 0/4] Openvswitch meter action

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Message-ID: <CAOrHB_Aij+QymzPxsX_g9HE1FCsoQrmTVQ74k=bamo+Ki4NnPg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 11 Nov 2017 07:25:30 +0530
From:   Pravin Shelar <pshelar@....org>
To:     Andy Zhou <azhou@....org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Joe Stringer <joe@....org>, Greg Rose <gvrose8192@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next v5 0/4] Openvswitch meter action

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Andy Zhou <azhou@....org> wrote:
> This patch series is the first attempt to add openvswitch
> meter support. We have previously experimented with adding
> metering support in nftables. However 1) It was not clear
> how to expose a named nftables object cleanly, and 2)
> the logic that implements metering is quite small, < 100 lines
> of code.
>
> With those two observations, it seems cleaner to add meter
> support in the openvswitch module directly.
>
> ---
>
>     v1(RFC)->v2:  remove unused code improve locking
>                   and other review comments
>     v2 -> v3:     rebase
>     v3 -> v4:     fix undefined "__udivdi3" references on 32 bit builds.
>                   use div_u64() instead.
>     v4 -> v5:     rebase
>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>