Sorry I guess I was not elaborate. Actually I need to implement a garbage
collector for an Openflow network. Would be great if you could please let me
know what my first steps should be to get familiar with OVS and the code? And
also if there is anything else important for me to go through.
Regards
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From: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
To: Ra Alva <ra_...@yahoo.com>
Cc: OVS <dev@openvswitch.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] OVS development - beginner
Open vSwitch already has features for that. What do you propose to
add?
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 01:20:19PM -0800, Ra Alva wrote:
> Hello Ben,
>
> My task is to minimize the consumption of flow tables by flow enties
> (in other words, preventing the over-population of flow tables by
> flow enties) since the flow tables are of limited size.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
> To: Ra Alva <ra_...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: OVS <dev@openvswitch.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 10:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] OVS development - beginner
>
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 01:04:51PM -0800, Ra Alva wrote:
> > I am going to start a project on OVS. I am a complete beginner
> > here. Precisely my task deals with optimizing the usage of flow
> > tables in OVS.
> >
> > Could someone please tell me what my first steps should be to get
> > familiar with OVS and the code? What are the most important things
> > to do at first? Also, for my task is there any thing specific I need
> > to go through or get familiar with?
>
> What do you mean by "optimizing the usage of flow tables in OVS"?
> It's hard to tell what you should do, before you explain what you want
> to do.
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