[ovs-dev] [PATCH] vtep: Document rationale for the 'switches' column in the Global table.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Jan 1 22:10:49 UTC 2015


On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:45:25AM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > At first glance it wasn't obvious why there was the possibility for more
> > than one switch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> I always imagined in my imagination the possibility of having multiple
> Physical_Switches records to be do something with a single chassis
> with two set of flooding domain (does something like that even
> exist?). But your explanation works too.
> Acked-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>

Thanks for the review.  I applied this.

I guess it's always possible to subdivide a switch into multiple
switches and manage them separately.



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