On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Tom Herbert <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Anoop Ghanwani <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Tom Herbert <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Put the VNID into a TLV then you are guaranteed that people will
> implement
> >> them!
> >>
> > And don't forget to make the VNID variable length while we're at it!!
> >
> +1
>

Just to be clear I just threw that out in jest (I know I should be more
careful about my jokes).  That said, I know it's been discussed that 24
bits, which many of the proposals seem to use, may not be enough.  I am
sympathetic to that, but I'm also sympathetic to ASIC designers being able
to get these proposals implemented.

I do like the discussion about implementation in Appendix D of the GUE
draft.  The problem then becomes one of determining what should be
supported in the fast path; once we have done that, we effectively have
defined a fixed-header solution.  And if we don't do that, we risk lack of
interoperability as each vendor independently tries to guess what that set
should be.

Anoop
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