That's too vague for me to guess.  What packets are getting lost?

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 04:10:14PM -0700, Xuemei Liu wrote:
> Hi, Ben,
> 
> I tried your method, but the switch seems to drop some packets, as it does
> not output the expected packets that I forward to send to it. Any advice?
> 
> Thanks,
> Xuemei
> 
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Xuemei Liu <lxuemei3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Ben,
> >
> > Thanks for your response.
> > "You realize that this will be terrible for performance, right?"
> > In fact, I have not got all packets sent to user space. That is the
> > problem I am facing now. I think performance might be another problem after
> > I can receive all packet in user space.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Xuemei
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:04:23AM -0700, Xuemei Liu wrote:
> >> > I am new to ovs, and I am trying to send all packets from kernel space
> >> to
> >> > user space. I comment the "unlikely(!flow)" in datapath/datapath.c.
> >> > However, it seems I just receive the first packet of each flow (the
> >> first
> >> > packet that match one forwarding rule in the bridge) in user space.
> >> Could
> >> > anyone tell me why? and is there other way to achieve my goal?
> >>
> >> You realize that this will be terrible for performance, right?
> >>
> >> It's kind of a waste to modify the kernel module for this.  I'd just
> >> modify userspace to send all packets to userspace, something like this:
> >>
> >> diff --git a/ofproto/ofproto-dpif-xlate.c b/ofproto/ofproto-dpif-xlate.c
> >> index 52395a7..a98406a 100644
> >> --- a/ofproto/ofproto-dpif-xlate.c
> >> +++ b/ofproto/ofproto-dpif-xlate.c
> >> @@ -4777,7 +4777,7 @@ xlate_actions(struct xlate_in *xin, struct
> >> xlate_out *xout)
> >>
> >>      ctx.xin = xin;
> >>      ctx.xout = xout;
> >> -    ctx.xout->slow = 0;
> >> +    ctx.xout->slow = SLOW_ACTION;
> >>      ctx.xout->has_learn = false;
> >>      ctx.xout->has_normal = false;
> >>      ctx.xout->has_fin_timeout = false;
> >>
> >
> >
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