Thanks for the reviews, series pushed to branch-2.3.

  Jarno

> On Feb 5, 2016, at 5:44 PM, Joe Stringer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 4 February 2016 at 16:10, Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> From: Ethan Jackson <[email protected]>
>> 
>> There are certain use cases (such as bond rebalancing) where a
>> datapath flow's actions may change, while it's wildcard pattern
>> remains the same.  Before this patch, revalidators would note the
>> change, delete the flow, and wait for the handlers to install an
>> updated version.  This is inefficient, as many packets could get
>> punted to userspace before the new flow is finally installed.
>> 
>> To improve the situation, this patch implements in place modification
>> of datapath flows.  If the revalidators detect the only change to a
>> given ukey is its actions, instead of deleting it, it does a put with
>> the MODIFY flag set.
>> 
>> This patch is a backport of commit 43b2f13 to branch-2.3.
>> This patch also squashes in commit c56eba3b7ab0 ("ofproto-dpif-upcall: Don't
>> delete modified ukeys.").
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Ethan J. Jackson <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]>
> 
> Looks like this resolves the issue I pointed out before, thanks.
> 
> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>

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