[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ofp: Add support for bundles extension in OpenFlow 1.3.

Jarno Rajahalme jarno at ovn.org
Mon Feb 29 20:53:42 UTC 2016


> On Feb 26, 2016, at 4:48 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 01:20:17PM -0800, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>> ONF Extension 230 adds support for OpenFlow 1.4 bundles to OpenFlow
>> 1.3.  Supporting this allows OpenFlow 1.3 controllers to start using
>> bundles.  Also the ovs-ofctl '--bundle' option can now be used with
>> OpenFlow 1.3.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno at ovn.org>
> 
> Thanks for doing this.
> 
> This is simpler than I expected, because I thought that there would be
> at least some messages that differed in some way from OF1.3 to OF1.4.
> Did you look over the protocol definitions and make sure that they were
> the same?

I think it is all the infra you have built to OVS that made this so simple.

There really are only two message types (control and add message), and apart from the extension header they are the same. The message and error type enums were the only real difference.

  Jarno

> 
> Thank you for adding all of the tests.
> 
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>

Pushed to master,

  Jarno




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