On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > 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. >
So, should we design that now? or later? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
