[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] FAQ: More explicitly draw attention to explanation of different flow types.

[Ben Pfaff]

Thanks, both applied!

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 09:39:35AM -0800, Justin Pettit wrote:
> Acked-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>
> 
> --Justin
> 
> 
> On Nov 20, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> > ---
> > FAQ |   16 ++++++++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
> > index ffe63cc..2912ae3 100644
> > --- a/FAQ
> > +++ b/FAQ
> > @@ -418,7 +418,11 @@ A: First, why do you want to do this?  Two connected bridges are not
> >    ports will not work with the userspace datapath, only with the
> >    kernel module.
> > 
> > -Q: Why are there so many different ways to dump flows?
> > +
> > +Implementation Details
> > +----------------------
> > +
> > +Q: I hear OVS has a couple of kinds of flows.  Can you tell me about them?
> > 
> > A: Open vSwitch uses different kinds of flows for different purposes:
> > 
> > @@ -446,7 +450,15 @@ A: Open vSwitch uses different kinds of flows for different purposes:
> >         current version of Open vSwitch, hardware switch
> >         implementations do not necessarily use this architecture.
> > 
> > -  Each of the commands for dumping flows has a different purpose:
> > +   Users and controllers directly control only the OpenFlow flow
> > +   table.  Open vSwitch manages the datapath flow table itself, so
> > +   users should not normally be concerned with it.
> > +
> > +Q: Why are there so many different ways to dump flows?
> > +
> > +A: Open vSwitch has two kinds of flows (see the previous question), so
> > +   it has commands with different purposes for dumping each kind of
> > +   flow:
> > 
> >       - "ovs-ofctl dump-flows <br>" dumps OpenFlow flows, excluding
> >         hidden flows.  This is the most commonly useful form of flow
> > -- 
> > 1.7.10.4
> > 
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