On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:13:18AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 09:00:35AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 10:09:20AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:22:07PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > > This patch implements use-space datapath and non-datapath code
> > > > to match and use the datapath API set out in Leo Alterman's patch
> > > > "user-space datapath: Add basic MPLS support to kernel".
> > > > 
> > > > The resulting MPLS implementation supports:
> > > > * Pushing a single MPLS label
> > > > * Poping a single MPLS label
> > > > * Modifying an MPLS lable using set-field or load actions
> > > >   that act on the label value, tc and bos bit.
> > > > * There is no support for manipulating the TTL
> > > >   this is considered future work.
> > > > 
> > > > The single-level push pop limitation is implemented by processing
> > > > push, pop and set-field/load actions in order and discarding information
> > > > that would require multiple levels of push/pop to be supported.
> > > > 
> > > > e.g.
> > > >    push,push -> the first push is discarded
> > > >    pop,pop -> the first pop is discarded
> > > > 
> > > > This patch is based heavily on work by Ravi K.
> > > > 
> > > > Cc: Ravi K <rke...@gmail.com>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamah...@valinux.co.jp>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au>
> > > 
> > > I resolved a few merge conflicts, then I went through this fairly
> > > carefully and made a few changes, mostly cosmetic.  I'm appending an
> > > incremental and then a full revised patch.
> > > 
> > > Here's a little commentary on the less trivial changes I made:
> > > 
> > >    - I think that eth_mpls_depth() was capable of counting an MPLS label
> > >      that was off the end of the packet as part of the depth (for
> > >      example, if there was one MPLS label without BOS followed by the
> > >      end of the packet, I believe that it would count this as depth 2).
> > >      This wasn't a problem for current callers but it seemed like a bad
> > >      idea, so I changed it.  Please check that it looks correct.
> > > 
> > >    - I think mf_random_value() should have used ->u8 for TC and BOS so I
> > >      changed it.
> > 
> > Thanks, both of those changes seem reasonable to me. I'll review
> > these and the changes in your diff more thoroughly and get back to you ASAP.
> 
> I have reviewed all the changes and they look good to me.
> Please feel free to apply. I can then rebase the remaining patches on
> master.

I fixed a few indentation errors I noticed at the last minute and
applied this to master.  Thanks!

> > > I have one question before I commit this: it seems that we could support
> > > a series of more than one pop_mpls action, why do we limit the number of
> > > pops to just one?
> > 
> > I think that I agree with you. I'll take a look and see how practical
> > it would be to remove that restriction.
> 
> I'll start looking into this in more depth. But I'd rather handle any
> updates as a subsequent change to this patch.

Thanks, that sounds fine.
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