On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 05:35:23PM +0530, RishiRaj Maulick wrote: > We are in the process of porting OVS vswitchd to our hardware switch. > > As part of the porting we do not want to use the OFPROTO classifier . > > The reason being: > > 1. 1) The HW is going to maintain the flows (rules) and we don’t want > to have a duplicate maintained in the vswitchd > > 2. 2) The number of flows that needs to be supported is quite huge (in > terms of Millions) and we don’t want OVS to maintain this as this will > increase the memory requirements for OVS. > > > > The PORTING document does not talk about the changes to the classifier. > > > Is there any other document or recommendation that we can follow to use OVS > without the classifier functionality.
OVS isn't designed for such a configuration, so you're on your own to make this change. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
