Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Remove mpls_depth field from flow

2013-09-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:02:10AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 08:42:50AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:51:35PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > > Rather than tracking the MPLS depth as a field in the > > > flow, which is an entirely poor place for it

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Remove mpls_depth field from flow

2013-09-24 Thread Simon Horman
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 08:42:50AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:51:35PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > Rather than tracking the MPLS depth as a field in the > > flow, which is an entirely poor place for it, just track > > the delta to the MPLS depth during translation. > >

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Remove mpls_depth field from flow

2013-09-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:51:35PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > Rather than tracking the MPLS depth as a field in the > flow, which is an entirely poor place for it, just track > the delta to the MPLS depth during translation. > > This logic was developed while implementing recirculation > and int

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Remove mpls_depth field from flow

2013-09-24 Thread Simon Horman
Rather than tracking the MPLS depth as a field in the flow, which is an entirely poor place for it, just track the delta to the MPLS depth during translation. This logic was developed while implementing recirculation and intended to be used to detect when recirculation should occur. This variant o