Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:18:02AM CEST, j...@mojatatu.com wrote: >On 09/19/14 18:12, John Fastabend wrote: >>On 09/19/2014 10:57 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: >>>On 09/19/14 11:49, Jiri Pirko wrote: >>>>Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 05:25:48PM CEST, j...@mojatatu.com wrote: >>> >>>>>Is this just a temporary test tool? Otherwise i dont see reason >>>>>for its existence (or the API that it feeds on). >>>> >>>>Please read the conversation I had with Pravin and Jesse in v1 thread. >>>>Long story short they like to have the api separated from ovs datapath >>>>so ovs daemon can use it to directly communicate with driver. Also John >>>>Fastabend requested a way to work with driver flows without using ovs -> >>>>that was the original reason I created switchdev genl api. >>>> >>>>Regarding the "sw" tool, yes it is for testing purposes now. ovs daemon >>>>will use directly switchdev genl api. >>>> >>>>I hope I cleared this out. >>>> >>> >>>It is - thanks Jiri. >>> >>>cheers, >>>jamal >> >>Hi Jiri, >> >>I was considering a slightly different approach where the >>device would report via netlink the fields/actions it >>supported rather than creating pre-defined enums for every >>possible key. >> >>I already need to have an API to report fields/matches >>that are being supported why not have the device report >>the headers as header fields (len, offset) and the >>associated parse graph the hardware uses? Vendors should >>have this already to describe/design their real hardware. >> >>As always its better to have code and when I get some >>time I'll try to write it up. Maybe its just a separate >>classifier although I don't actually want two hardware >>flow APIs. >> >>I see you dropped the RFC tag are you proposing we include >>this now? >> > > >Actually I just realized i missed something very basic that >Jiri said. I think i understand the tool being there for testing >but i am assumed the same about the genlink api. >Jiri, are you saying that genlink api is there to >stay?
Yes, that I say. It is needed for flow manipulation, because such api does not exist. As I stated earlier, I do not want to use switchdev genl for anything other than flow manipulation. > >cheers, >jamal _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
