[ovs-dev] [PATCHv2] ofproto-dpif: Mark packets as "untracked" after call to ct().

[Justin Pettit]

> On Aug 21, 2017, at 12:38 PM, Joe Stringer <joe at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> Overall I think that this is an improvement to consistency of what
> connection tracking metadata is accessible from different points in
> the OpenFlow pipeline. Although this will restrict the availability of
> ct_state following the ct() action execution, controller writers who
> wish to preserve access to this content across a CT action execution
> can do so using registers. In practice I'm not aware of any controller
> that is currently operating this way though.
> 
> Do we need a NEWS item for this?

Good point I added something.

> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe at ovn.org>

Thanks for all your suggestions and testing on these patches leading up to this no-slowpath work.  I've pushed this change to master and branch-2.8.

--Justin