[ovs-discuss] open vswitch source code query

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 07:23:15PM +0530, Amit Tewari wrote:
> 1.       I  did not find any routine which executes action in userspace.
> Only action performed is output packet to a port. Enqueue action or
> modifly vlan tag actions are not handle in userspace.

OVS uses the kernel module to execute actions.

> 2.       all modify actions are visible in datapath/actions.c only. That
> means all actions are performed in datapath only.

Yes.  OVS uses the kernel module to execute actions.