[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/4] ofproto-dpif: Handle failed flow 'put's.

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Fri Jun 21 00:14:17 UTC 2013


On Jun 20, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 04:51:54PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
>> If a flow cannot be installed in the datapath, we should notice
>> this and not treat it as installed.  This becomes an issue with
>> megaflows, since a batch of unique flows may come in that generate
>> a single new datapath megaflow that covers them.  Since userspace
>> doesn't know whether the datapath supports megaflows, each unique
>> flow will get a separate flow entry (which overlap when masks are
>> applied) and all except the first will get rejected by a megaflow-
>> supporting datapath as duplicates.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>
> 
> The new comment in struct flow_miss_op talks about destroying
> subfacets, but actually we just mark them as not installed.
> 
> Same for a new comment in handle_miss_upcalls().

Whoops.  Fixed.

Thanks,

--Justin





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