On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:52:43PM -0800, Yongqiang Liu wrote: > Now there is an interesting problem with ./ovs-dpctl show command. > It will silently create many dpx devices in /dev/net.
This is true. > 4. but if there in argument dp0, it has a problem: it creates extra 254 > devices in /dev/net/ > # ./ovs-dpctl show Do you mean, if there is *no* argument dp0? That is what your example shows. This is because the "show" command without any argument scans for every possible datapath. There are 256 possible datapaths numbered 0 through 255, so it has to create a device for each one in order to try to open it. It's not normally a problem. Does it cause a problem for you? At any rate, the current "master" branch in OVS does not create any devices at all. It uses Netlink instead. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
