[ovs-dev] [PATCH v13 1/4] ofproto-dpif: Add 'force-miss-model' configuration

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Jun 20 15:57:22 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 09:47:38AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> This adds support for specifying flow miss handling behaviour at
> runtime, through a new "other-config" option in the Open_vSwitch table.
> This is an extension to flow-eviction-threshold.
> 
> By default, the behaviour is the same as before. If force-miss-model is
> set to 1, then flow miss handling will always result in the creation of
> new facets and flow-eviction-threshold will be ignored. If
> force-miss-model is set to 2, then flow miss handling will never result
> in the creation of new facets (effectively the same as setting the
> flow-eviction-threshold to 0, which is not currently configurable).

In the database, please use some meaningful names for these modes,
instead of integers.

Thanks,

Ben.



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