Hey, Few questions,
1. how do you change the flow to output to port 2? using ovs-ofctl mod-flows? Could you show the exact commands? 2. There was a commit (b2a4692 ofproto: Increase default datapath max_idle time.) that increased the max_idle time of dpif flows. That may be related. Thanks, Alex Wang, On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Tony van der Peet < tony.vanderp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use OpenVSwitch and occasionally upgrade from the tip of master. My > previous upgrade was in Sep/2014, and I have just upgraded to last Friday's > tip. A number of previously running test cases (using oftest) now fail for > me, and I am investigating. > > The v1.3 test basic.OutputExact creates a flow outputting to port 1, then > sends packets in ports 2, 3 and 4. The flow is then changed to output to > port 2 instead. Since everything else about the flow is the same, this > actually represents a change in the same flow (in my opinion) and therefore > the dpif flows created when packets were received should now be invalid. > However, when a packet is sent on port 3, instead of being output to port > 2, it is output to port 1, causing the test to fail. > > I think what's happening is that the dpif flows are not being deleted when > the flow changes. I am almost certain that this is not how the code used to > behave. I have also tweaked the test to explicitly remove the flow before > changing the output port, and this test passes. > > The questions I have are: Can anyone point me to the code change that > might have introduced this behaviour? Is it a deliberate change or a > by-product? While I could happily proceed by changing our regression test, > I would rather see if this behaviour can be altered to behave the way it > used to, which seems to me to be more conformant to the specification. > > Any advice gratefully accepted. > > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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