On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 03:30:01PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 09:44:54AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > this patch set implements the group select selection method extension that > > I circulated some months ago on the d...@openvswtich.org mailing list. For > > reference a copy of that proposal (updated for the existence of an Open > > Flow 1.5 draft and several errors found during implementation) is at the > > end of this email. > > > > The implementation makes use of a group experimenter property and > > thus depends on my recent work to implement (draft) Open Flow 1.5 > > groups (ONF EXT-250). That work is already present in the master branch. > > > > The last patch of the series adds an implementation of a hash selection > > method to illustrate what a selection method might look like. It may be > > thought of as a less intelligent but more flexible than the default > > selection method which I characterise as making hash of L2 and/or L3 fields > > depending on which fields are present in the flow. > > Hi Simon. Thanks for submitting this. > > I have a question about the status of the definition of this > extension. Is it an extension that is already in use, so that the OVS > implementation should strive to be compatible with the existing > implementation? Or is it an extension for which this will be the > first implementation? The answer colors my review, since in the first > case I'm mostly interested in faithfully implementing the extension in > an interoperable way, whereas in the second I'm also interested in > trying to ensure that it is defined in a way that is likely to be > useful and maintainable and extensible in the long run.
It is the latter: this is the only implementation I am aware of and I am not aware of any users in the wild. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
