I posted some slides from a presentation I did a couple of months ago that
touches on that subject:
http://openvswitch.org/slides/OVS-Development.pdf
There's a diagram that shows the different layers. The boxes contain
essentially the filename (you'd need to add a ".c" and ".h") and the directory
is in parentheses. Hope that helps.
--Justin
On Dec 9, 2012, at 7:29 AM, Ra Alva <ra_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My task basically deals with exact match table and wildcards supported match
> table. After some reading, I found out that Datapath and ofproto-dpif
> maintain these tables respectively. At the moment I am looking into the files
> to understand how these tables are created, used and maintained.
>
> Could someone please let me know which files I need to go through to
> understand these things? thanks.
>
> Regards.
>
> From: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
> To: Ra Alva <ra_...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: OVS <dev@openvswitch.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] OVS development - beginner
>
> I'd start by reading PORTING.
>
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 10:58:45AM -0800, Ra Alva wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > ________________________________
> > 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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