[ovs-dev] flows in Flow Table?

Bibrak Qamar bibrakc at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 06:55:02 UTC 2011


Could you please identify the section of code where ovs receives packet from
datapath and tries to check whether it exists in flow table. This might help
me in trying to understand how ovs handles flows.

thanks
Bibrak

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 11:21:25AM +0500, Bibrak Qamar wrote:
> > I am bit new to the OVS and am stuck in the code. Could any one tell me
> how
> > OVS stores OpenFlow flows, is it a hash table (key, value) pair?
>
> No, it's more complicated than that.  See lib/classifier.h for a brief
> description.
>
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