[ovs-discuss] Nicira Registers in packet in message

[nsmurthy at freescale.com]

2.0.0

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp at nicira.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 10:45 PM
To: NS Srinivasa Murthy-B37840
Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Nicira Registers in packet in message

What OVS version is this?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 05:13:51PM +0000, nsmurthy at freescale.com wrote:
> Using the subtype NXAST_REG_MOVE, i have moved Ethernet source MAC address of the packet into Reg0 and Reg1.
> The flow I have added for this purpose is correctly shown by "ovs ofctl dump-flows" command.
> 
> So, Reg0 and Reg1 can be assumed to be non zero.
> 
> Thanks
> -ns murthy
> 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp at nicira.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 10:32 PM
> To: NS Srinivasa Murthy-B37840
> Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Nicira Registers in packet in message
> 
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 12:56:07AM +0000, nsmurthy at freescale.com wrote:
> > Reg0 and Reg 1 are not found in the miss packet received by OF-controller from OVS switch .
> > I have gone through the OVS fumction  get_metadata() in which the registers are copied to the packet in message.
> > 
> > 
> > -          Is there any extra configuration setting required in OVS switch?
> > 
> > OR
> > 
> > -          Is there any version specific issue?
> 
> Are the registers set to nonzero values?  They are only reported in that case.