Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 01/11] metaflow: Allow fields to be marked as variable length.

2015-06-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:13:15PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: > Until now, all fields that OVS can match against have been fixed > size (variable length headers can be skipped during parsing but > the match is fixed). However, Geneve options can vary in size > so we must not require the size of thes

[ovs-dev] [PATCH 01/11] metaflow: Allow fields to be marked as variable length.

2015-06-19 Thread Jesse Gross
Until now, all fields that OVS can match against have been fixed size (variable length headers can be skipped during parsing but the match is fixed). However, Geneve options can vary in size so we must not require the size of these fields to be known at compile time. This allows data types to be a