On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 04:31:27PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote: > OVS implementation of buffering packets that are sent to the > controller is not compliant with the OpenFlow specifications after > OpenFlow 1.0. OVS implementation executes the buffered packet against > the actions of the modified or added rule, whereas OpenFlow (since > 1.1) specifies that the packet should be matched against the flow > table 0 and processed accordingly. > > Rather than fix this behavior, and potentially break OVS users, we > propose to remove the feature altogether, starting in OVS 2.7. This > patch announces this in 'NEWS', and adds detial to the FAQ question > about backet buffering. > > Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <ja...@ovn.org>
The terminology here is a little confusing. I believe that the intention is to remove packet buffering from OVS 2.7. Usually, I think of "deprecation" as a way of discouraging users from using a feature that will be removed in a future release. So, if we follow that terminology, then 2.6 will deprecate packet buffering and 2.7 will remove it. If you're willing to make that change to the naming, then: Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
