* OpenFlow features. In particular attempts to modify the flow table
* will be rejected with an OFPBRC_EPERM error.
*
- * Slave controllers also do not receive asynchronous messages
- * (OFPT_PACKET_IN, OFPT_FLOW_REMOVED, OFPT_PORT_STATUS).
+ * Slave controllers do not receive OFPT_PACKET_IN or OFPT_FLOW_REMOVED
+ * messages, but they do receive OFPT_PORT_STATUS messages.
*/
struct nx_role_request {
struct nicira_header nxh;
NXAST_POP_QUEUE, /* struct nx_action_pop_queue */
NXAST_REG_MOVE, /* struct nx_action_reg_move */
NXAST_REG_LOAD, /* struct nx_action_reg_load */
+ NXAST_NOTE /* struct nx_action_note */
};
/* Header for Nicira-defined actions. */
};
OFP_ASSERT(sizeof(struct nx_action_reg_load) == 24);
+/* Action structure for NXAST_NOTE.
+ *
+ * This action has no effect. It is variable length. The switch does not
+ * attempt to interpret the user-defined 'note' data in any way. A controller
+ * can use this action to attach arbitrary metadata to a flow.
+ *
+ * This action might go away in the future.
+ */
+struct nx_action_note {
+ uint16_t type; /* OFPAT_VENDOR. */
+ uint16_t len; /* A multiple of 8, but at least 16. */
+ uint32_t vendor; /* NX_VENDOR_ID. */
+ uint16_t subtype; /* NXAST_NOTE. */
+ uint8_t note[6]; /* Start of user-defined data. */
+ /* Possibly followed by additional user-defined data. */
+};
+OFP_ASSERT(sizeof(struct nx_action_note) == 16);
+
/* Wildcard for tunnel ID. */
#define NXFW_TUN_ID (1 << 25)
*
* Format: 48-bit Ethernet MAC address.
*
- * Masking: Not maskable. */
+ * Masking: The nxm_mask patterns 01:00:00:00:00:00 and FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF must
+ * be supported for NXM_OF_ETH_DST_W (as well as the trivial patterns that
+ * are all-0-bits or all-1-bits). Support for other patterns and for masking
+ * of NXM_OF_ETH_SRC is optional. */
#define NXM_OF_ETH_DST NXM_HEADER (0x0000, 1, 6)
+#define NXM_OF_ETH_DST_W NXM_HEADER_W(0x0000, 1, 6)
#define NXM_OF_ETH_SRC NXM_HEADER (0x0000, 2, 6)
/* Packet's Ethernet type.