On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 05:19:25PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:48:29PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 02:33:14PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > Until now ofpacts_check() has been told either to enforce consistency or
> > > not, but that means that the caller has to know exactly what protocol is
> > > going to be in use (because some protocols require consistency to be
> > > enforced and others don't).  This commit changes ofpacts_check() to just
> > > rule out protocols that require enforcement when it detects
> > > inconsistencies.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
> > 
> > Hi Ben,
> > 
> > this approach seems reasonable to me.
> > 
> > The problem I see with verification of VLAN actions that follow push_mpls
> > when OpenFlow1.3 is not that different protocols require consistency to
> > enforced while others don't. Rather the problem I as is that what is
> > consistent is different for pre-OpenFlow1.3 and OpenFlow1.3+ tag ordering.
> > 
> > I believe that logic to handle that difference can be built on top of your
> > patch and what follows is a prototype of such logic. I'm not sure that this
> > is the direction you want us to take so I would appreciate feedback on this
> > approach.
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I know this is rather complex and becoming rather drawn out.
> But if you could take a few (maybe quite a few) moments
> to look over this I would be most grateful.

Yeah, sorry, as usual I'm backlogged and I tend to be drawn toward an
"review easiest patches first" strategy.
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