On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le jeudi 24 novembre 2011 à 21:20 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
>
>> The problem is that there are two flow classifiers, one in OpenVswitch
>> in the kernel, and the other in the user space flow manager. I think the
>> issue is that the two have different code.
>
> We have kind of same duplication in kernel already :)
>
> __skb_get_rxhash() and net/sched/cls_flow.c contain roughly the same
> logic...
>
> Maybe its time to factorize the thing, eventually use it in a third
> component (Open vSwitch...)

I agree, there's no need to have three copies of packet header parsing
code and that's certainly something that we would be willing to work
on improving.
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