[ovs-discuss] OpenVSwitch - Able to add more than maximum number of flow entries in Flow table

[Ben Pfaff]

It's true.

I recommend not adding more flows than you think should be added.

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:59:35AM +0000, Prabina Pattnaik wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I have verified that Flow Table has been added in the current master available on Git (unreleased version) and is working as desired.
> But this is not available in latest version of OVS 1.4.1.
>   
> Regards,
> Prabina
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp at nicira.com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 10:26 PM
> To: Prabina Pattnaik
> Cc: bugs at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVSwitch - Able to add more than maximum number of flow entries in Flow table
> 
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:20:00AM +0000, Prabina Pattnaik wrote:
> > This variable value is hard coded with 1000000 with OVS-1.2.2 and we
> > are able to add more than 1000000 entries in a same flow table.
> 
> If you want a hard limit on flow entries, you can implement it in OVS
> 1.4.x and later via the Flow_Table table.
> 
> 
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