[ovs-discuss] Flow difference between ovs-ofctl dump-flows & ovs-dpctl dump-flows

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Apr 24 22:50:49 UTC 2014


No. No.

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Bhargav Bhikkaji
<bhargav.ietf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does "ovs-ofctl flows" gets programmed in the kernel ? or is that
> "ovs-dpctl dump-flows" dumps both of-flows & flows that got punted ?
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 03:37:12PM -0700, Bhargav Bhikkaji wrote:
>> > My actual question is, if there is flow miss in the datapath, the packet
>> > is
>> > punted to the user-space (vswitchd) which programs the missed flow on
>> > datapath. Essentially, vswitchd handles the flow management for
>> > datapath.
>> > Is there a way to dump in vswitchd those flows that got punted and gets
>> > programmed subsequently in datapath ?
>>
>> The flows that got punted and programmed are the flows dumped by
>> "ovs-dpctl dump-flows".
>
>



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