> On Aug 29, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > > 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. >
Oops, thanks for the review! Fixed and push to master and branch-2.6. Jarno > 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
