[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] Support accepting and displaying table names in OVS tools.

Kei Nohguchi kei at nohguchi.com
Fri Jan 12 21:07:24 UTC 2018


Hi Ben,

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:57:22PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> OpenFlow has little-known support for naming tables.  Open vSwitch has
> supported table names for ages, but it has never used or displayed them
> outside of commands dedicated to table manipulation.  This commit adds
> support for table names in ovs-ofctl.  When a table has a name, it displays
> that name in flows and actions, so that, for example, the following:
>     table=1, arp, actions=resubmit(,2)
> might become:
>     table=ingress_acl, arp, actions=resubmit(,mac_learning)
> given appropriately named tables.
> 
> For backward compatibility, only interactive ovs-ofctl commands by default
> display table names; to display them in scripts, use the new --names
> option.
> 
> This feature was inspired by a talk that Kei Nohguchi presented at Open
> vSwitch 2017 Fall Conference.
> 
> CC: Kei Nohguchi <kei at nohguchi.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>

Woo!  Thank you, Ben, for conidering that!

I'll apply it locally and get back to you.

Kei


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