[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] ofp-actions: Add a new action to truncate a packet.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:56:50PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> On 12 April 2016 at 21:13, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:38:38AM -0700, William Tu wrote:
> >> Should we expose "truncate" to the ovs-ofctl action list?
> >>
> >> I was thinking about this ovs-ofctl syntax:
> >>     actions='output(max_len=64, port=1), output:2'
> >>
> >> then at datapath it translates to actions
> >>     truncate(64), output(1), output(2)
> >>
> >> So 64B to port1, and 100B to port2.
> >
> > I think that's OK.
> >
> > Pravin or Joe, do you have an opinion?
> 
> Seems fine.
> 
> As an aside, it might be worth creating some tests that output to a
> bond port to ensure that case works, in addition to the existing
> cases.

I don't know what that means; there are no "bond ports" at the OpenFlow
level.