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From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome•com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp•pl>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	benjamin.lahaise@netronome•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	bcrl@kvack•org, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] flower: add MPLS matching support
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:55:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170425115459.GA23939@vergenet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170424190743.4ad24ad1@cakuba.netronome.com>

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 07:07:43PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:06:08 -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> > On 17-04-24 10:00 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> > > On 17-04-24 09:48 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:  
> > 
> > >
> > > Hrm. maybe I am wrong.
> > > Lets say user sets all of the 8 bits in BOS,
> > > what does setting
> > > key_val->mpls_bos = nla_get_u8 do?
> > >
> > > Same with the 20 bits for the label in the u32
> > > or 3 bit bits in the u8 tc.  
> > 
> > The label and tc are masked - maybe just the BOS
> > needs something similar?
> 
> Indeed, good catch!

I agree something should be done wrt BOS. If the LABEL and TC are to
be left as-is then I think a similar treatment of BOS - that is masking it
- makes sense.

I also agree with statements made earlier in the thread that it is unlikely
that the unused bits of these attributes will be used - as opposed to a
bitmask of flag values which seems ripe for re-use for future flags.

I would like to add to the discussion that I think in future it would
be good to expand the features provided by this patch to support supplying
a mask as part of the match - as flower supports for other fields such
as IP addresses. But I think the current scheme of masking out invalid bits
should also work in conjunction with user-supplied masks.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-25 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-22 20:52 [PATCH net-next 0/2] flower: add MPLS matching support Benjamin LaHaise
2017-04-22 20:52 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] flow_dissector: add mpls support (v2) Benjamin LaHaise
2017-04-24  7:05   ` Jiri Pirko
2017-04-22 20:52 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] cls_flower: add support for matching MPLS fields (v2) Benjamin LaHaise
2017-04-24  7:07   ` Jiri Pirko
2017-04-24 18:32 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] flower: add MPLS matching support David Miller
2017-04-25  0:58   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-04-25  1:05     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2017-04-25  1:25       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-04-25  1:20     ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25  1:48       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-04-25  2:00         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-04-25  2:06           ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-04-25  2:07             ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25 11:55               ` Simon Horman [this message]
2017-04-25 12:47                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-04-25 17:26                   ` Benjamin LaHaise

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