On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 08:57:16AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:15:53AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > I do have one other (minor) problem that I am facing which is the different > > widths of IN_PORT. 16 bits for NXM and 32 bits for OXM. > > > > Special casing this in the encoder isn't so bad, it basically encodes each > > field individually. However special-casing in the decoder would be rather > > ugly. > > I don't see another good way to do it, yet. I think we'll have to > special case it for now. > > Perhaps, if enough other special cases come up, we'll see enough of a > pattern that we can clean it up. > > > One idea I have is to add OXM width fields (perhaps just bytes rather than > > bytes and bits). But at this point those fields would only be used for > > IN_PORT. > > I think that that would be premature. I'm OK with a special case for > this.
No problem, special-case it is then. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
