On Jul 15, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 04:55:56AM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>> Previously we only returned the last matching prefix length
>> encountered during a trie lookup, and skipped subtables that had
>> prefixes longer than that.  This patch changes the trie lookup
>> functions to return all matching prefix lengths seen, so that all
>> non-matching prefix lengths can be skipped.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajaha...@nicira.com>
> 
> Here, should the comment on match_plens be something more like
> "Prefixes that could possible match.”?

You are right, I forgot to update the comment. It is now a bitmask, one bit for 
each potentially matching prefix length. Each bit indicates one prefix length 
with potential matches, what do you think of this:

“Bitmask of prefix lengths with possible matches.”

  Jarno

> struct trie_ctx {
>     const struct cls_trie *trie;
>     bool lookup_done;        /* Status of the lookup. */
>     uint8_t be32ofs;         /* U32 offset of the field in question. */
> -    unsigned int match_plen; /* Longest prefix than could possibly match. */
>     unsigned int maskbits;   /* Prefix length needed to avoid false matches. 
> */
> +    union mf_value match_plens; /* Longest prefix than could possibly match. 
> */
> };
> 
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>

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