Hi Ben,

Because for sFlow, it doesn't have any benefit to do
"sample(truncate(n), userspace(...))" in userspace datapath. I tried
to implement it by truncating the packet at OVS_ACTION_ATTR_USERSPACE
in dp_execute_cb() but it looks weird. And currently I couldn't think
of any other use case so I let sFlow translates differently for kernel
and userspace dp.

Regards,
William


On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 06:06:47PM -0700, William Tu wrote:
>> > I'm not sure why CHECK_TRUNC_USERSPACE exists, because I think that your
>> > patch implements the new action in userspace.
>>
>> When translating sflow header config, only if it runs kernel datapath,
>> I will program truncate to sample's actions list, ex:
>> "sample(trunc(64), userspace(...))". If it runs userspace datapath,
>> then it falls back to original way "sample(userspace(...))" and let
>> sflow code cut the packet to 'header' size.
>
> Why are the two datapaths treated differently?  Software is easier to
> test if all the cases are similar, when possible.
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