On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:37:46PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote: > Meter action can drop or modify packets, so the execution framework is > changed to allow for this. Also, a meter action can appear alone > (e.g., to measure traffic that is to be dropped), so the existing drop > implementation is not sufficient any more. > > The action execution framework is changed in three ways: > > 1. Action execution can shrink the number of packets in a batch to be > further processed by the remaining actions. > > 2. Whenever a packet is 'stolen' (e.g., for output), the corresponding > packet pointer is changed to NULL. NULLed pointers must be excluded > from further processing by using the change #1 above. Sometimes > this means that the packet pointers are shuffled so that remaining > action processing never needs to check for the NULL pointers > explicitly. > > 3. Packet deletion is centralized to the odp_execute_actions() > function. This make memory leaks less likely to appear as new > kinds of action are added later. > > Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajaha...@nicira.com>
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