Re: [PATCH net-next v4] openvswitch: enable NSH support
From: Jan Scheurich <hidden>
Date: 2017-08-21 09:31:27
The second member of the union should be a variable length array [] of
struct nsh_md2_tlv
struct nsh_hdr {
ovs_be16 ver_flags_ttl_len;
uint8_t mdtype;
uint8_t np;
ovs_16aligned_be32 path_hdr;
union {
struct nsh_md1_ctx md1;
struct nsh_md2_tlv md2[];
};
};
That was the original design before Ben removed it due to missing support
in Microsoft compiler.
For the Kernel datapath we should go back to that.
I wonder about the possible 16-bit alignment of the 32-bit fields, though.
How is that handled in the kernel? Also struct nsh_md1_ctx has 32-bit
members, which might not be 32-bit aligned in the packet.
One afterthought:
I think it would be good to add another member to the union to represent unstructured context headers as used, e.g., in the context of push_nsh.
struct nsh_hdr {
ovs_be16 ver_flags_ttl_len;
uint8_t mdtype;
uint8_t np;
ovs_16aligned_be32 path_hdr;
union {
uint8_t ctx_headers[];
struct nsh_md1_ctx md1;
struct nsh_md2_tlv md2[];
};
};