On 12/05/14 at 04:06pm, Justin Pettit wrote: > On Dec 5, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Thomas Graf <tg...@noironetworks.com> wrote: > > > Yes. I plan to send him an updated patch set to see what he thinks of > > > the interface that's there for conntrack and connmark. > > > > Excellent. Did you consider a conntrack extension for OVS? > > What do you mean by a conntrack extension?
<net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.h> allows to dynamically extend nf_conn with additional members. We could use this to introduce a set of registers to store metadata and work around the limited number of bits in connmark. This is how conntrack labels are implemented as an example. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
