Re: openvswitch/flow WAS ( Re: [rfc] Merging the Open vSwitch datapath
From: Ben Pfaff <hidden>
Date: 2010-10-15 16:50:05
From: Ben Pfaff <hidden>
Date: 2010-10-15 16:50:05
[adding ovs-team] On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 07:31:32AM -0400, jamal wrote:
Sorry, slightly off topic - and this old (catching up with netdev randomly going backwards).. I was curious after seeing the exchange with Eric D. on the tunnels and how you have your own tree so i glossed over what your project is doing. It seems to me that you reinvented things that exist in Linux already such as bridging, tunnels and what really caught my attention: ability to do flows (tc actions). It is possible Linux is missing something you wanted or was not efficient enough? [For example: I couldnt see anything you needed on flow-action management that Linux couldnt do already (with already very nice well structured netlink APIs)]