On 21 April 2017 at 18:45, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 11:40:54AM +0200, Matthias May wrote:
>> When using openvswitch in combination with a hardware switch attached via dsa
>> it may be desirable to prevent frames from being looped back to interfaces
>> which reside on the same switch and are already processed by the
>> switching fabric in hardware.
>> This patch series achieves this by introducing a new parameter port_group to
>> be used by the normal action.
>> When the port_group is not set explicitly, it defaults to the ofp number.
>> Ports which are in the same group will not forward a frame between each 
>> other.
>
> Thank you for proposing (and implementing) a new feature!  It's always
> great to see new people and companies coming into the Open vSwitch
> development community.  I'll take a more detailed look at each patch,
> but I have a few general questions here too.
>
> What's dsa?

For what it's worth, DSA support in the Linux code has recently been
resurrected, there was a netdev 2.1 talk here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK5ZmQOYSpM
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