On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Xiaoye Sun <xiaoye....@rice.edu> wrote: > I am wondering if there is a race condition between the flow-mod and the > incoming packet. > > When ovs userspace receives a flow-mod message from a remote controller, > does it has higher priority over processing incoming packets (kernel > upcalls) or this flow-mod message and the flow miss upcalls are processed > concurrently?
There's no interlocking of flow table modifications and packet processing. It wouldn't make sense to do so in the switch since nothing else provides those guarantees. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
