[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Documentation: Update documentation for OpenFlow support.

Yi-Hung Wei yihung.wei at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 22:13:22 UTC 2019


On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:42 AM Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
>
> The commits that implemented these features forgot to update the
> documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/topics/openflow.rst | 26 +-------------------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/topics/openflow.rst b/Documentation/topics/openflow.rst
> index bb7559047742..b6a5c6b54920 100644
> --- a/Documentation/topics/openflow.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/topics/openflow.rst
> @@ -90,12 +90,6 @@ following additional work.  (This is based on the change log at the end of the
>  OF1.3 spec, reusing most of the section titles directly.  I didn't compare the
>  specs carefully yet.)
>
> -* Add support for multipart requests.
> -
> -  Currently we always report ``OFPBRC_MULTIPART_BUFFER_OVERFLOW``.
> -
> -  (optional for OF1.3+)
> -
>  * IPv6 extension header handling support.
>
>    Fully implementing this requires kernel support.  This likely will take some
> @@ -195,17 +189,6 @@ OpenFlow 1.4 only
>  Those features are those only available in OpenFlow 1.4, other OpenFlow 1.4
>  features are listed in the previous section.
>
> -* More extensible wire protocol
> -
> -  Many on-wire structures got TLVs.
> -
> -  All required features are now supported.
> -  Remaining optional: table desc, table-status
> -
> -  (EXT-262)
> -
> -  (required for OF1.4+)
> -
>  * Optical port properties
>
>    (EXT-154)
> @@ -237,8 +220,7 @@ OpenFlow 1.5 only
>  -----------------
>
>  Those features are those only available in OpenFlow 1.5, other OpenFlow 1.5
> -features are listed in the previous section.  Note that this list is not
> -definitive as OpenFlow 1.5 is not yet published.
> +features are listed in the previous section.
>
>  * Egress Tables
>
> @@ -246,12 +228,6 @@ definitive as OpenFlow 1.5 is not yet published.
>
>    (optional for OF1.5+)
>
> -* Extensible Flow Entry Statistics
> -
> -  (EXT-334)
> -
> -  (required for OF1.5+)
> -
>  * Flow Entry Statistics Trigger
>
>    (EXT-335)
> --
I did some quick checks.  All the aforementioned features (multipart
requests, table desc, table-status TLV, Extensible Flow Entry
Statistics) are in OVS already.

Thanks for updating the doc.

Acked-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei at gmail.com>

-Yi-Hung


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