Maybe I am missing something basic here..can you please point me to the
documentation?
I have seen a brief mention of NXAST_REUBMIT_TABLE in "DESIGN" document and it
implies that upon packet ingress, only
table 0 will be looked up and others will come into play when the extensions
are enabled. Elsewhere in the code it implies
that the input-port# and table-number can be passed to lookup. Based on this I
inferred that datapath was
involved in resubmit action.
I would like to understand how resubmit is independent of the datapath and also
how recirculate will do multiple lookups
for a single packet in-kernel.
thx,
Kishore
>________________________________
> From: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
>To: K.R Kishore <krkish...@yahoo.com>
>Cc: "discuss@openvswitch.org" <discuss@openvswitch.org>
>Sent: Monday, August 5, 2013 2:21 PM
>Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Resubmit vs Recirculate
>
>
>On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 02:18:53PM -0700, K.R Kishore wrote:
>>
>> ________________________________
>> > From:?Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
>> >> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 12:58:17PM -0700, K.R Kishore wrote:
>>
>> >> Thanks for the quick response. The answer is not clear/complete to
>> >> me, let me rephrase the question based on what I understand.
>> >>?
>> >> - The ofproto-provider which implements the parser and contains the
>> >> - Nicira extension module (for OF) will interpret OF commands and
>> >> - derive flow entries that it plumbs into the datapath. Do commands
>> >> - that require "Resubmit" go only in the user space datapath? Does
>> >> - kernel datapath ever deal with multiple table lookups?
>> >
>> > "Resubmit" doesn't require any special support from the datapath.? It
>> > works with any datapath.
>>
>> i see. What is "resubmitted" then? If datapath allows for a packet
>> to be processed only once, does "resubmit" in this context apply to
>> the packet that is submitted to the ofproto-parser to determine
>> which OF table should be used when a flow is added/modified?
>
>"resubmit" is documented. Please read the documentation.
>
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