[ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/5] ofproto-dpif: Flush flows before dpif_recv_set_mask().

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Sep 22 18:40:10 UTC 2011


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 03:00:06PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> Now that upcalls from the kernel use unicast sockets, we need to
> tell the kernel where to send them explicitly.  This means that
> when the switch is restarted it's necessary to take control of any
> existing objects, which is done when the dpif listen mask becomes
> non-zero.  Since we're going to blow away the flows anyways, we
> might as well do it before going through the trouble of updating
> all of them.

Looks good, thank you.



More information about the dev mailing list