[ovs-dev] OF1.1+ Groups

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Aug 7 16:43:30 UTC 2013


I've seen that there's nothing like proposing an implementation of a
feature to make other implementations appear.

Sure, please send what you have.  If there's more than one choice then
let the best code win.

Thanks,

Ben.

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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