netdev - Re: [net-next 0/2] seg6: add NEXT-C-SID support for SRv6 End.X behavior

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Message-ID: <ZMtyu/mb7O8fuzAg@Laptop-X1>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 17:26:19 +0800
From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
To: Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@...roma2.it>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
	Stefano Salsano <stefano.salsano@...roma2.it>,
	Paolo Lungaroni <paolo.lungaroni@...roma2.it>,
	Ahmed Abdelsalam <ahabdels.dev@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/2] seg6: add NEXT-C-SID support for SRv6 End.X
 behavior

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 07:51:15PM +0200, Andrea Mayer wrote:
> The NEXT-C-SID mechanism [3] extends the SRv6 architecture by providing several
> ways to efficiently represent the SID List.
> By leveraging the NEXT-C-SID, is it possible to encode several SRv6 segments
> within a single 128 bit SID address (also referenced as Compressed SID
> Container). In this way, the length of the SID List can be drastically reduced.

nit: it is possible...