On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 06:46:27PM -0700, pravin shelar wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 01:14:26PM -0700, pravin shelar wrote: > >> The datapath truncate action should not be associated with output > >> action. It should be general truncate action with truncate length > >> parameter. This way we can apply it to actions other than output. > > > > This may require more care than perhaps you expect. For example, if the > > truncation removes a header, or part of a header, then the extracted > > flow may need to be updated. It might also mean that datapath actions > > to modify fields become invalid. > > There is no need to truncate packet immediately. We can keep the > truncate len in skb_ovs_cb and use it to truncate packet right before > seeing it over port or to user-space up-call.
OK, that's a different situation, I agree. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
