On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 05:53:23PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > This reworks lookup of rules for both table 0 and table action translation. > The result is that Table Mod settings, which can alter the miss-behaviour > of tables, including table 0, on a per-table basis may be honoured. > > Previous patches proposed by myself which build on earlier merged patches > by Andy Zhou implement the ofproto side of Table Mod. So with this patch > the feature should be complete. > > Neither this patch, nor any other patches it builds on, alter the default > behaviour of Open vSwitch. And in particular the OpenFlow1.1 behaviour is > the default regardless of which OpenFlow version is negotiated between the > switch and the controller. > > An implementation detail, which lends itself to future work, is the > handling of OFPTC_TABLE_MISS_CONTINUE. If a table has this behaviour set by > Table Mod and a miss occurs then a loop is created, skipping to the next > table. It is quite easy to create a situation where this loop covers ~255 > tables which is very expensive as the lookup for each table involves taking > locks, amongst other things. > > Cc: Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au>
I guess that this needs a rebase now. I hope to apply the new revision. Thanks, Ben. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
