Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 09/11] odp-util: Pass down flow netlink attributes when translating masks.

2015-06-24 Thread Jesse Gross
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:13:23PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: >> Sometimes we need to look at flow fields to understand how to parse >> an attribute. However, masks don't have this information - just the >> mask on the field. We already use the tr

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 09/11] odp-util: Pass down flow netlink attributes when translating masks.

2015-06-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 04:13:23PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: > Sometimes we need to look at flow fields to understand how to parse > an attribute. However, masks don't have this information - just the > mask on the field. We already use the translated flow structure for > this purpose but this isn'

[ovs-dev] [PATCH 09/11] odp-util: Pass down flow netlink attributes when translating masks.

2015-06-19 Thread Jesse Gross
Sometimes we need to look at flow fields to understand how to parse an attribute. However, masks don't have this information - just the mask on the field. We already use the translated flow structure for this purpose but this isn't always enough since sometimes we actually need the raw netlink info