[ovs-dev] Does ovs support OpenFlow 1.3 meter table now?

[Ben Pfaff]

OVS has two main datapaths: kernel-based and userspace-based.  If you
use the default setup, you're using the kernel-based datapath.  The
documentation explains how to use the userspace datapath instead.

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 11:59:15PM +0800, Mingming Chen wrote:
> Thank you so much! I have updated ovs 2.5.4 to ovs 2.9.0. Unfortunately, a new problem just like this link(OFPMMFC_INVALID_METER): https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2017-October/045513.html
> I also searched and found this: https://groups.google.com/a/onosproject.org/forum/#!topic/onos-discuss/OaA66m3dYds . But I still don't know exactly how to do so I can push a meter in ovs. Could you guide me more? What does it mean by "support meters in the userspace(DPDK) datapath only"? Thanks again!
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Mingming
> 
> 
> At 2018-05-08 23:09:15, "Ben Pfaff" <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> >On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 07:27:41AM +0800, Mingming Chen wrote:
> >> According to my prior experience, ovs 2.5.0 doesn't support meter
> >> table. Now I am using ovs 2.5.4, and I want to test meter table. So,
> >> does ovs 2.5.4 supports openflow 1.3 meter table? If not, is there any
> >> version of ovs could support meter table? Thanks a lot!
> >
> >OVS 2.7 and later support meters in the userspace (DPDK) datapath only.