On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Andy Zhou <az...@ovn.org> wrote:
> This patch series is the first attempt to add openvswitch
> meter support. We have previously experimented with adding
> metering support in nftables. However 1) It was not clear
> how to expose a named nftables object cleanly, and 2)
> the logic that implements metering is quite small, < 100 lines
> of code.
>
> With those two observations, it seems cleaner to add meter
> support in the openvswitch module directly.
>
>
Thanks for working on this feature. It looks good to me. I have couple
of comments inlined.

> Andy Zhou (4):
>   openvswitch: Add meter netlink definitions
>   openvswitch: export get_dp() API.
>   openvswitch: Add meter infrastructure
>   openvswitch: Add meter action support
>
>  include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h |  52 ++++
>  net/openvswitch/Makefile         |   1 +
>  net/openvswitch/actions.c        |  12 +
>  net/openvswitch/datapath.c       |  43 +--
>  net/openvswitch/datapath.h       |  35 +++
>  net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c   |   6 +
>  net/openvswitch/meter.c          | 611 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  net/openvswitch/meter.h          |  54 ++++
>  8 files changed, 783 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 net/openvswitch/meter.c
>  create mode 100644 net/openvswitch/meter.h
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>

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