[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] ovs-vswitchd: Register unixctl commands to enable/disable packet processing.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu May 16 22:40:29 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 03:18:25PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> This commit provides an option to enable or disable packet processing
> coming from the datapath.
> 
> This option is useful during Open vSwitch upgrades. Typically we want
> to restart openvswitch, add the openflow flows and then start packet
> processing. The next commit will use these commands in Open vSwitch
> startup scripts.
> 
> Bug #16086.
> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>

Guru and I talked this over in person and he's going to look at
another approach that solves a bigger problem from a higher level.



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