On Dec 8, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:57:30PM +0000, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) wrote: >> On Dec 4, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 09:48:57AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: >>>> This was prompted by a conversation on the openflow-discuss mailing list >>>> where developers of some OpenFlow switches mentioned that they save an >>>> entire copy of raw flows passed in by controllers because of the >>>> possibility that there might be wildcarded 1-bits, e.g. something like >>>> 192.168.1.1/255.255.0.0 instead of 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0. I've always >>>> intended that this not be necessary, but it was never explicitly written >>>> down. This commit starts the process of updating OVS to make this a >>>> requirement, by logging a warning whenever such a NXM or OXM entry is seen, >>>> and by updating the spec in nicira-ext.h to describe my intent. >>>> >>>> I intend to also file a bug report in the ONF tracker for OpenFlow to get >>>> a similar clarification into OpenFlow 1.4. (I don't intend to make this >>>> an error in Open vSwitch unless ONF actually accepts this change.) >>>> >>>> Thanks to Zolt?n Lajos Kis, Dan Talayco, Rob Sherwood, and HIDEyuki >>>> Shimonishi for participating in the discussion on openflow-discuss. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> >>> >>> It would be really good to get this in soon, so that we can report a >>> warning when controllers have unusual behavior here. >> >> Looked this one over, looks good to me. >> >> Signed-off-by: Kyle Mestery <kmest...@cisco.com> > > I changed that to an Acked-by (since you're a reviewer, not along the > delivery path) and pushed this. Thank you!
Thanks. It was late in the day for me here, thus the typo. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
