Thanks. I'm back from vacation Tuesday and hope to review the new version this week. On Jan 5, 2014 8:26 PM, "Simon Horman" <ho...@verge.net.au> wrote:
> 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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