On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:46:19AM -0700, Dan Talayco wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > This interpretation seems needlessly wasteful.  It forces the switch
> > to keep an extra copy of the original flow match around, instead of
> > allowing it to convert it to an internal form and discard the
> > original.
> 
> This is how the Indigo2 reference switch works.  It keeps the OF state
> representation independent of the forwarding state representation
> specifically for this reason.

You make it sound like a good thing.  I still think it's needlessly
wasteful.
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