On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 03:02:45PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > Have you considered allowing database configuration to specify what kind > > of attributes are expected and how to parse them? The configuration > > could be P4-based, for example. > > This is possible but it seems kind of ugly and complicated so I hope > to not have to go down this path. I think there is a simpler variant, > which is to just have a mapping table of Geneve IDs to a pool of OXMs. > That's all that is really needed since the action to be taken is just > matching against the payload so there isn't much parsing. But I still > would like it avoid this if possible.
I guess I see some form of more configurable header parsing as inevitable, which makes me eager to try out some kind of prototype. A mapping table would be a nice simple place to start. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
