On Apr 29, 2014, at 7:40 AM, Martino Fornasa <m...@fornasa.it> wrote:
> Jarno Rajahalme wrote: >> >> Also, we have defined the type ‘stp_identifier’ in lib/stp.h. I’d like you >> to use it (with the accompanying formatting tools) also for RSTP (maybe move >> them to lib/util.h to use them both from STP and RSTP). > I would prefer to define a separate rstp_identifier as uint64_t. This is > because STP and RSTP identifier are encoded differently: > > * In STP, there are 16 bits for the priority and 48 bits for the MAC address > * In RSTP, there are 4 bits for priority, 12 bits for private extension (used > in the Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol to identify the tree instance) and 48 > bits for the MAC address. > > Thus, the formatting tools are not really compatible (and they will be less > compatible if someone try to implement the Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol on > top of our code). > OK, thats fine. Jarno _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
