I think it's worthwhile to think about OpenFlow and datapath separately
here.
Multiple approaches might be appropriate for OpenFlow. The one that you
implement in this patch, where "output" supports an additional "max_len"
seems just fine to me. Has anyone mentioned a reason that it is not
appro
Hi,
The RFC has been posted for a while and I started to rethink about the
design decision of this packet truncation patch.
Below listed a couple of different view points gathered from different
people and any comments are welcomed.
1. Deferral Truncate (current patch)
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The patch proposes adding a new action to support packet truncation. The new
action is formatted as 'output(port=n,max_len=m)', as output to port n, with
packet size being MIN(original_size, m).
One use case is to enable port mirroring to send smaller packets to the
destination port so that only
