On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 07:42:12PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote: > The following OF packets may produce the wrong result as follows. > It depends on how ovs-vswitchd serves OF packets. Sending the OF packets > in single TCP packet will increase the possiblity. > > OF request: > feature request > port_mod with config LINK DOWN > barrier > feature request > > The replies: > feature reply with port config UP > barrier > feature reply with port config UP (this should be DOWN because > it's after barrier) > port status with port config = DOWN and port status = DOWN > > The direct cause is updte_port_config() @ ofproto/ofproto.c doesn't update > ofputil_phy_port::config. And later the config member is updated > by update_port() in main loop(). > It seems that it tries to produce port_status event due to config change. > But changing other OFPC flags doesn't generate port_status event, so it's > consistent not to generate the event when OFPC_LINK_DOWN flag is changed. > > Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamah...@valinux.co.jp> > --- > I can't find any explicit description in the spec about whether to generate > port_status event when OFPC_ flags are changed. > So which way do we like? generate port_status event or not? > Anyway I think port_status event should be generated (or not generated) > independently on which flags are changed.
I think it would be better to generate a port status event for any change, rather than to never generate port status events. Will you write an alternative patch that implements that behavior? Thanks. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
