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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
To: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail•com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, davem@davemloft•net,
	nhorman@tuxdriver•com, andy@greyhouse•net, tgraf@suug•ch,
	dborkman@redhat•com, ogerlitz@mellanox•com, jesse@nicira•com,
	pshelar@nicira•com, azhou@nicira•com, ben@decadent•org.uk,
	stephen@networkplumber•org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com,
	vyasevic@redhat•com, xiyou.wangcong@gmail•com,
	john.r.fastabend@intel•com, edumazet@google•com,
	sfeldma@cumulusnetworks•com, f.fainelli@gmail•com,
	roopa@cumulusnetworks•com, linville@tuxdriver•com,
	dev@openvswitch•org, jasowang@redhat•com, ebiederm@xmission•com,
	nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com, ryazanov.s.a@gmail•com,
	buytenh@wantstofly•org, aviadr@mellanox•com, nbd@openwrt•org,
	alexei.starovoitov@gmail•com, Neil.Jerram@metaswitch•com,
	ronye@mellanox•com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 01/13] openvswitch: split flow structures into ovs specific and generic ones
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 17:11:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5407841C.3040301@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540731B9.4010603@gmail.com>

On 09/03/14 11:20, John Fastabend wrote:

> Also I have some filters that can match on offset/length/mask
> tuples. As far as I can tell this is going to have to be yet
> another interface? Or would it be worth the effort to define
> the flow key more generically. My initial guess is I'll just
> write a separate interface. I think this is what Jamal referred
> to as another "classifier".
>

Exactly. I have more complex classifiers as stated earlier.
I am afraid these patches again are not satisfying that need.

In any case - we are taking a different tact than these patches
do and hopefully at some point we can merge thoughts.

cheers,
jamal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-03 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-03  9:24 [patch net-next 00/13] introduce rocker switch driver with openvswitch hardware accelerated datapath Jiri Pirko
2014-09-03  9:24 ` [patch net-next 01/13] openvswitch: split flow structures into ovs specific and generic ones Jiri Pirko
     [not found]   ` <1409736300-12303-2-git-send-email-jiri-rHqAuBHg3fBzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-03 15:20     ` John Fastabend
     [not found]       ` <540731B9.4010603-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-03 18:42         ` Pravin Shelar
     [not found]           ` <CALnjE+rk26Om1O5_Q=8tn7eAyh4Ywen-1+UD_nCVj_geZY1HuQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-04 12:25             ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-04 12:09         ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-03 21:11       ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2014-09-03 18:41   ` Pravin Shelar
2014-09-03 21:22     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
     [not found]       ` <54078694.5040104-jkUAjuhPggJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-03 21:59         ` Pravin Shelar
     [not found]           ` <CALnjE+qUqSK7kHSi5BZuA0hzFjMcZ8TCTd9JRG1PPmMfDmAQOA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-04  1:54             ` Jamal Hadi Salim
     [not found]     ` <CALnjE+pscRmfhaWgkWCunJfjvG04RiNUAj6nefSFHrknQTC+xw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-04 12:33       ` Jiri Pirko
     [not found]         ` <20140904123323.GF1867-6KJVSR23iU5sFDB2n11ItA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-04 20:46           ` Pravin Shelar
2014-09-17  8:34             ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-17 22:07               ` Jesse Gross
2014-09-03  9:24 ` [patch net-next 02/13] net: rename netdev_phys_port_id to more generic name Jiri Pirko
     [not found] ` <1409736300-12303-1-git-send-email-jiri-rHqAuBHg3fBzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-03  9:24   ` [patch net-next 03/13] net: introduce generic switch devices support Jiri Pirko
     [not found]     ` <1409736300-12303-4-git-send-email-jiri-rHqAuBHg3fBzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-03 15:46       ` John Fastabend
     [not found]         ` <540737CF.4000402-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-04 12:46           ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-03  9:24   ` [patch net-next 04/13] rtnl: expose physical switch id for particular device Jiri Pirko
2014-09-03  9:24   ` [patch net-next 05/13] net-sysfs: " Jiri Pirko
2014-09-03  9:24   ` [patch net-next 06/13] net: introduce dummy switch Jiri Pirko
2014-09-03  9:24   ` [patch net-next 07/13] dsa: implement ndo_swdev_get_id Jiri Pirko
     [not found]     ` <1409736300-12303-8-git-send-email-jiri-rHqAuBHg3fBzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-03 23:20       ` Florian Fainelli
     [not found]         ` <5407A25A.8050401-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-04 12:47           ` Jiri Pirko
     [not found]             ` <20140904124701.GH1867-6KJVSR23iU5sFDB2n11ItA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-05  4:43               ` Felix Fietkau
2014-09-05  5:52                 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-03  9:24   ` [patch net-next 10/13] openvswitch: add support for datapath hardware offload Jiri Pirko
     [not found]     ` <1409736300-12303-11-git-send-email-jiri-rHqAuBHg3fBzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-03 16:37       ` John Fastabend
     [not found]         ` <540743B4.9080500-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-04 12:48           ` Jiri Pirko
     [not found]             ` <20140904124837.GI1867-6KJVSR23iU5sFDB2n11ItA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-05  3:59               ` Simon Horman
2014-09-03  9:24   ` [patch net-next 11/13] sw_flow: add misc section to key with in_port_ifindex field Jiri Pirko
2014-09-03  9:24   ` [patch net-next 12/13] rocker: introduce rocker switch driver Jiri Pirko
2014-09-03  9:24 ` [patch net-next 08/13] net: introduce netdev_phys_item_ids_match helper Jiri Pirko
2014-09-03  9:24 ` [patch net-next 09/13] openvswitch: introduce vport_op get_netdev Jiri Pirko
2014-09-03  9:25 ` [patch net-next 13/13] switchdev: introduce Netlink API Jiri Pirko
2014-09-08 13:54 ` [patch net-next 00/13] introduce rocker switch driver with openvswitch hardware accelerated datapath Thomas Graf
2014-09-09 21:09   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2014-09-15 12:43     ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-16 15:58   ` Jiri Pirko
     [not found]     ` <20140916155832.GA1869-6KJVSR23iU488b5SBfVpbw@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-29  5:44       ` Neelakantam Gaddam
     [not found]         ` <CAOv37=BNU1-+kgTR6RUqxw7snJL6=5g-rLYhuPc1F-V0B1k7tA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-29  5:46           ` Jiri Pirko

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