On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:12:41AM +0000, Rajahalme, Jarno (NSN - FI/Espoo) > wrote: >> On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:15 , ext Simon Horman wrote: >> > * Implement recirculation and a host of more sophisticated MPLS features >> > including: >> > - copy_ttl_in >> > - copy_ttl_out >> > - L3+ actions on MPLS frames (e.g. pop_mpls(0x800),set_ttl) >> > - multi-level mpls_pop and mpls_push >> > * Other more specific datapath todo items listed in the changelog of >> > "datapath: Add basic MPLS support to kernel" >> > >> >> Am I right in assuming that something like a "resubmit" action would be >> needed for recirculation in the kernel datapath? I have earlier >> implemented something like "recirculation" (as I understand it) with a >> special vport that provides it's output as input to the datapath. I.e., I >> have used the OVS_ACTION_ATTR_OUTPUT to implement "recirculation" with a >> "loopback vport". It would be nice to get rid of that with a more >> explicit mechanism. >> >> Or have I completely misunderstood what you mean with recirculation here? > > My current thought is that recirculation could be implemented using > a new action (I had in mind to call it "recirculate") as you suggest. > And I intend to try and implement that. > > It is not entirely clear to me that is quite what Jesse has in mind > or that it will work as expected. We shall see.
Yes, that's what I had in mind. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
