On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 11:14:20PM +0800, Zong Kai LI wrote: > > This patch aims to extend Address_Set to Macros, make it more common to > > accept variable set, not only address. And by that, we can skinny down > ACLs, > > if we use Macros to defines port name sets for ACL to use, since lots of > ACL > > entries are similar but only "inport" and "outport" fields are different. > > > > Address_Set improves the performance of OVN control plane. But what more > > important is, its implementation introduced a "$macros -- element_set" > > mechanism, it's good way to do bunch jobs for ACLs, and even lflows. > > I'd prefer to defer this feature past the Open vSwitch 2.6 release.
On an earlier patch, I suggested the idea that we might want to at least rename the table if we see that coming, even if we don't apply the rest of the changes. That way, we get the non-backwards compatible part out of the way before 2.6. What do you think? -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
