On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 12:09:21AM -0700, Mickey Spiegel wrote:
> This patch set is being sent out early to solicit feedback on the
> approach.  North/south DNAT and SNAT are working, including some
> automated tests.  There is another patch required to get east/west NAT
> working, but work has not yet commenced:
> 
> 1. Add egress loopback capability, along with associated
>    flags.egress_loopback.  When flags.egress_loopback is set, at the
>    end of the egress pipeline, instead of the packet being sent out the
>    outport, the packet is forced back to the beginning of the ingress
>    pipeline with inport = outport.  All other registers are cleared, as
>    if the packet just arrived on that inport.
>    This capability is needed in order to implement some of the
>    east/west NAT flows.
>    Note: The existing flags.loopback allows a packet to go from the end
>    of the ingress pipeline to the beginning of the egress pipeline with
>    outport = inport, which is different.

Guru reminded me that we talked about this briefly at ovscon.  I don't
remember the conclusion or the suggestion.  Is there anything I can do
to help advance that discussion (or the patch series)?
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