[ovs-dev] [PATCH] OPENFLOW-1.1+: OFPCML_NO_BUFFER is effectively already implemented.

Kyle Mestery (kmestery) kmestery at cisco.com
Fri May 24 02:51:08 UTC 2013


On May 23, 2013, at 6:08 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> OpenFlow 1.2 and later define a value of 65535 (OFPCML_NO_BUFFER) for
> the max_len field in an output action to mean that the switch should send
> the entire packet without buffering it.  Open vSwitch never buffers packets
> sent via an output action, so it trivially satisfies this requirement.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>


Makes sense and looks ok.



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