On 4/14/22 17:34, Paolo Valerio wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valerio <[email protected]>
> ---
>  lib/meta-flow.xml |    9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 

Hi, Paolo.   Thanks for the patch!
See some comments inline.

> diff --git a/lib/meta-flow.xml b/lib/meta-flow.xml
> index 28865f88c..3445246f4 100644
> --- a/lib/meta-flow.xml
> +++ b/lib/meta-flow.xml
> @@ -4101,6 +4101,15 @@ r r c c c.
>          opcodes greater than 255 are treated as 0; this works adequately
>          because in practice ARP and RARP only use opcodes 1 through 4.
>        </p>
> +
> +      <p>
> +        In the case of fragmented traffic, a difference exists in the way
> +        the field acts for IPv4 and IPv6 later fragments.

>          Because of the
> +        headers structure, the protocol type is not processed for IPv6
> +        fragments with nonzero offset, meaning that matches based on this
> +        field are not effective for those packets.

This part reads as nw_proto makes no meaningful value in case of
IPv6 later fragments, but that is not correct.  It has a value 44
and users can match on it, IIUC.  Could you clarify this in the
text?  You may also look at how this is described in the design
doc: Documentation/topics/design.rst.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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