OpenFlow actions are initially translated by ofproto-dpif-xlate functions. The kernel actions are generated by the various commit_* functions in lib/odp-util.c, called by the xlate functions.
Regards, Jarno On Nov 21, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Masoud Moshref Javadi <moshr...@usc.edu> wrote: > Where/how are user actions translated to actions that kernel understands? > Looking at datapath/actions.c, it seems the kernel only understands > OVS_ACTION_ATTR_* from netlink messages. > > At the userside it seems that ofproto-dpif-xlate.c:xlate_actions__() looks > for the rule by calling rule_dpif_lookup, and fills actions in ctx variable. > But I cannot find where actions of the rule are extracted and converted to > those that kernel understands. > Is this ofp-actions.c:ofpacts_execute_action_set() or > ofproto-dpif-xlate.c:compose_output_action ()? > > -- > Masoud Moshref Javadi > Computer Engineering PhD Candidate > Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering > University of Southern California > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
