Cascading operations in P4

Architecture Working Group
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Hii Everyone.

Considering that the target hardware supports multiple inline accelerators like ipsec/tm/frag etc… how can we decide the order of those operations after deparsing is done ? Does the spec defines anything (like egress_metadata or something) that supports this scenario ?

Thankyou.

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@ShatakshiMishra ,

The order in which individual components are executed (be they P4-programmable or not) is determined by the target’s P4 architecture and can be quite flexible. You need to read the specs for the specific architecture.

Happy hacking,
Vladimir

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Thank you @vgurevich