On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 05:57:41PM +0200, Christian Stigen Larsen wrote:
> Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>:
> >> Is do_xlate_actions ("translate actions"?) the wrong place for this kind of
> >> stuff? How can I get a pointer to the raw packet data?
> >
> > Usually, ofproto-dpif-xlate should not actually implement the OpenFlow
> > actions. Rather, it should output a set of datapath (kernel) actions
> > that implement the OpenFlow actions. Otherwise, every packet in the
> > flow has to go from the kernel to userspace, which is slow.
>
> Yes, I figured this was not the place. So should I add a new action to
> ovs_action_attr instead, then add it as a datapath action during
> translation?
Yes, that's the way to do it.
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