[ovs-dev] [PATCH 9/9] ovn-controller: Drop most uses of OVS patch ports.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 10:08:25AM -0800, Guru Shetty wrote:
> On 4 December 2016 at 23:17, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > Until now, ovn-controller has implemented OVN logical patch ports and
> > l3gateway ports in terms of OVS patch ports.  It is a hassle to create and
> > destroy ports, and it is also wasteful compared to what the patch ports
> > actually buy us: the ability to "save and restore" a packet around a
> > recursive trip through the flow table.  The "clone" action can do that too,
> > without the need to create a port.  This commit takes advantage of the
> > clone action for that purpose, getting rid of most of the patch ports
> > previously created by ovn-controller.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
> >
> 
> Though all the unit tests pass, all the system tests related to the gateway
> fail.
> make check-kernel TESTSUITEFLAGS="-k ovn"

Uh-oh.  Is there something obviously wrong?