On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 13:20:01 Joe Stringer wrote: > When userspace doesn't provide a mask, OVS datapath generates a fully > unwildcarded mask for the flow. This is done by taking a copy of the > flow key, then iterating across its attributes, setting all values to > 0xff. This works for most attributes, as the length of the netlink > attribute typically matches the length of the value. However, IPv6 > labels only use the lower 20 bits of the field. This patch makes a > special case to handle this. > > This fixes the following error seen when installing IPv6 flows without a > mask: > > openvswitch: netlink: Invalid IPv6 flow label value (value=ffffffff, > max=fffff)
Based on offlist discussion with Pravin, I'll send a patch for an alternative approach. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
