On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 05:00:48PM -0700, Andy Zhou wrote:
> In case DP_HASH and RECIRC actions need to be executed in slow path,
> current implementation simply don't handle them -- vswitchd simply
> crashes. This patch fixes them by supply an implementation for them.
> 
> RECIRC will be handled by the datapath, same as the output action.
> 
> DP_HASH, on the other hand, is handled in the user space. Although the
> resulting hash values may not match those computed by the datapath, it
> is less expensive; current use case (bonding) does not require a strict
> match to work properly.
> 
> Reported-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamam...@valinux.co.jp>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com>

I would adjust the comment in odp_execute_actions__() to match the
changelog better, maybe:
            /* Calculate a hash value directly.  This might not match the
             * value computed by the datapath, but it is much less expensive,
             * and the current use case (bonding) does not require a strict
             * match to work properly. */

Should we ovs_assert() that md->dp_hash is OVS_HASH_ALG_L4?
Presumably we won't ever create an ODP action that uses a hash
algorithm we don't implement, and if we do we ought to find out about
it.

Thanks,

Ben.
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