[ovs-dev] [PATCH v4 09/12] ofproto: Revertible eviction.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Jun 11 00:35:00 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 05:24:16PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
> Handling evictions was broken in the previous patches. Eviction took
> place early in the commit, and actually inappropriately bumped the
> version number too early.  Now eviction is treated much like a flow
> modification, where a new rule replaces the old one, but just without
> any 'inheritance' from the evicted rule to the new rule.  This makes
> evictions to be executed only when commit is successful, as evictions
> are reverted like any other changes when the commit fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com>

Nice!

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>



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