There are multiple layers where you can see packets come in, but 
handle_upcall() in "ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c" is probably a good place to start 
(and the "DPIF_UC_MISS" case in particular).  You can then go up or down the 
call stack depending on what you want to see.

--Justin


On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:55 PM, Bibrak Qamar wrote:

> Could you please identify the section of code where ovs receives packet from 
> datapath and tries to check whether it exists in flow table. This might help 
> me in trying to understand how ovs handles flows.
> 
> thanks
> Bibrak
> 
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 11:21:25AM +0500, Bibrak Qamar wrote:
> > I am bit new to the OVS and am stuck in the code. Could any one tell me how
> > OVS stores OpenFlow flows, is it a hash table (key, value) pair?
> 
> No, it's more complicated than that.  See lib/classifier.h for a brief
> description.
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