What I thought is to generally use metadata as matching rule in datapath. It is not just between tables.
Thanks, Junguk 2014-08-26 15:15 GMT-06:00 Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:14:10PM -0600, Junguk Cho wrote: > > But, it is in "struct flow" in lib/flow.h. > > It is not from "struct sw_flow_key" in /datapath/flow.h. > > > > I assume metadata is used in action in datapath. > > metadata is not a datapath concept. There is no need for it to be a > datapath concept. > > Please explain a specific case in which you think that the datapath > would need to know about metadata, then I will explain why it does > not. > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
