On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 01:57:37PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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, I have sent v4 after rebasing.
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