On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > 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.
I will keep this in mind when I start implementing this part of the code. Thanks. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
