[ovs-discuss] Collapsing Flow Table Rules in ovs

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 10:59:49PM +0530, raghavan srivats wrote:
> At the level of the dpif, table id does not seem to percolate through nor
> does goto table or resubmit action in any form ;
> and dpif  seems to maintain a single table only.
> This collapse of flow table rules spanning multiple tables into a single
> rule in a single table is presumably by intent ? or is there a plan to
> address in a future ovs version ?

It's intentional.

> So ofproto takes care of capturing the properties of the flow and cascaded
> actons which could occur on a packet in its lifetime and posts the final
> flow via dpif_flow put ?

Yes.