[ovs-discuss] Compiling datapath.c

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Sat Dec 14 03:14:33 UTC 2013


I'm not sure that I understand what you mean.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Jayanth Silesh
<jayanthsileshs.forums at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jesse,
>
> I also want to if there the team is working on “Resubmit” as an action in
> the Learn command?
>
> Thanks,
> Jayanth
> Graduate Student
> USC
>
>
>
> On December 13, 2013 at 2:28:22 PM, Jesse Gross (jesse at nicira.com) wrote:
>
> OVS is designed to be very fault tolerant so that it works reliably
> even in extreme conditions (at least 99.999% uptime).
>
> At all times the code is stored in 5 separate, undisclosed locations
> (3 active, 1 hot standby, and 1 cold spare). Whenever it is compiled,
> each version is processed separately and the results are compared to
> ensure integrity. If any one exhibits an error or does not match the
> others, that copy of the code is immediately removed from circulation
> and deleted. This is most likely what is happening to you since you're
> deliberating introducing an error.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Jayanth Silesh
> <jayanthsileshs.forums at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jesse,
>> Its not. I am on purpose having a syntax error in the code.
>> It does not throw an error. It just compiles fine.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jayanth
>> Graduate Student
>> USC
>>
>>
>>
>> On December 13, 2013 at 1:14:12 PM, Jesse Gross (jesse at nicira.com) wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Jayanth Silesh
>> <jayanthsileshs.forums at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I am trying to install a modified version of OVS but I have made a syntax
>>> error in datapath.c but it still compiles perfectly fine and the module
>>> is
>>> installed too.
>>> The OVS functions which I have modified works too ..
>>>
>>> Is there a different way of compiling datapath.c
>>
>> If you change datapath/datapath.c and recompile, it should pick up the
>> changes.



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