[ovs-dev] OF1.1+ Groups

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Tue Aug 6 05:36:31 UTC 2013


Hi Casey,

I'll let Ben answer for himself but from my point of view I think
it would be helpful for you to send what you have and I would be more
than happy to look at helping move things forwards from where
you have got up to.

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 03:55:20PM -0700, Casey Barker wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I've had a "mostly working" implementation of groups for several months,
> but sadly not enough time in my schedule for a proper upstreaming effort. I
> don't expect to have time for at least a few more weeks.
> 
> Would it help if I sent my ofproto and action bucket changes? Those were
> the most interesting bits, as I recall. I could probably get those out in
> the next few days, but I don't think I have time to carve them up into
> small, tractable patches. Or as a baby step, maybe I could at least send
> you my ofproto-provider API?
> 
> (FYI, the naming of async operation groups as "groups" in ofproto.c got so
> confusing, I had to do a search/replace in my local repository, just for my
> own sanity.)
> 
> Casey
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 11:38:57AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to announce my intention to work on OF1.1+ Groups support
> > for
> > > Open vSwtich with a particular focus on supporting the fast failover
> > group
> > > type.
> > >
> > > I do not wish to tread on any toes so if anyone is already working on
> > this
> > > please let me know.
> > >
> > > Assuming that is not the case my high-level plan is as follows:
> > >
> > > 1. Test and as necessary fix
> > >    "[groups RFC 2/2] Implement OpenFLow 1.1+ "groups" protocol."[1]
> > >    by Neil Zhu.
> >
> > I'm working on this myself and made some progress.  I'll try to post a
> > new version this week.
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