On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:34 AM, jamal <h...@cyberus.ca> wrote: > > Hrm. I forgot about the flow classifier - it may be what the openflow > folks need. It is more friendly for the well defined tuples than u32.
The flow classifier isn't really designed to do rule lookup in the way that OpenFlow/Open vSwitch does, since it's more about choosing which fields are considered significant to the flow. I'm sure that it could be extended in some way but it seems that the better approach would be to factor out the common pieces (such as the header extraction mentioned before) than try to cram both models into one component. I understand that you see some commonalities with various parts of the system but often there are enough conceptual differences that you end up trying to shove a square peg into a round hole. As Stephen mentioned about the bridge, many of these components are already fairly complex and combining more functionality into them isn't always a win. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
