On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 04:53:15AM +0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 02:21:01AM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
> > IETF NSH draft will be approved by end of August, NSH header
> > format has been finalized and won't be change anymore, so we
> > need to follow this final spec to implement nsh.
> > 
> > kernel data path also needs finalized uAPIs, they can't be
> > changed once they are merged.
> > 
> > This patch adds new nsh key 'ttl', bits of flags and mdtype
> > fields are also changed to follow the final spec.
> > 
> > A new action dec_nsh_ttl will be added in the following patch.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <[email protected]>
> 
> It's time to take another look at NSH, by adding support for the latest
> draft.  I posted a patch to kick this off:
>         
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-November/340365.html
> 
> This is the sort of patch that could be backported to 2.8 if that is
> desirable.
> 
> After we get the protocol format fixed, I suggest rebasing and reposting
> these patches so that we can get enhanced support into 2.9.
> 
> Thanks,

Ben, no problem, NSH kernel patch will be merged very soon, after that
I'll rework this patch series, netlink message format for OVS_KEY_ATTR_NSH
has big change per kernel requirement, so userspace part will have some
big change for push_nsh and set. action names for data path also need
to be changed.

We also can start backporting NSH kernel patches to OVS to support
compat mode, this requires to backport many kernel patches before NSH
kernel patch, it will be great if OVS 2.9 can support both userspace and
kernel data path.
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