On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:23:14PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On 07/15/2015 04:03 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:09:21PM -0700, Alex Wang wrote:
> >> With you suggestion, first, the logical port name in ovn-nb can be
> >> duplicated.
> >> And if that is allowed, we need to pass the "options" down to ovn-sb
> >> Binding table to uniquely binding the vtep lport to vtep chassis.
> > 
> > I'm starting to wonder whether we need global uniqueness for logical
> > port names, or just uniqueness within a logical datapath.
> > 
> 
> I think it has to be globally unique, right?  ovn-controller uses the
> port name to match ports that appear on the local switch to a logical
> port.  How would we match the exact logical port if it's not globally
> unique?

We'd have to introduce some context to identify the logical datapath as
well.  It may not be worth it; it was an idle thought.
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