On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:48:42AM -0700, Pravin Shelar wrote: > Currently the kernel vlan actions mirror those used by OpenFlow 1.0. i.e. > MODIFY and STRIP. More flexible approach is to have an action to push a > tag and pop a tag off, so that it can handle multiple levels of vlan tags. > Plus it aligns with newer version of OpenFlow. > As this patch replaces MODIFY with PUSH semantic, > action mapping done in userpace is fixed accordingly. > GSO handling for multiple levels of vlan tags is also added as > Jesse suggested before. > > Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com>
I'm surprised that the new "push" action doesn't accept a tpid as part of its argument, so that it could be transparently extended later to allow pushing a nonstandard (pre-standardization) tpid such as 0x9100. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
