[ovs-discuss] Flow Removed Message

[Ben Pfaff]

OK, if you've found a bug, great, and please feel free to submit a patch
to fix it.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 01:47:03PM +0530, Manpreet Singh wrote:
> Hello Team,
> 
> As per description given in Openflow spec-1.5.0 section "7.4.2 Flow Removed
> Message".
> It is clearly mentioned that "The reason value OFPRR_GROUP_DELETE is used
> when the flow entry is removed by a group-mod request (see 6.7)".
> 
> But OVS behaves differently in this case. It may be possible that I didn't
> understood the statement correctly. Can you please help me in understanding
> same.
> 
> Regards
> Manpreet
> 
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Nicholas Bastin <nick.bastin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Manpreet Singh <er.manpreet25 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Can you tell me how we can get OFPRR_GROUP_DELETE as reason in Flow
> >> Removed Message.
> >>
> >
> > OFPRR_GROUP_DELETE should be sent when a flow is removed as a result of a
> > group removal, and not as an individual flow removal.
> >
> > It's not entirely clear (to me, at least) what the situation is in your
> > original email, but an individual flowmod removal (via flow-mod) will
> > always result in an OFPRR_DELETE.  If you've removed the group itself (via
> > a group-mod), and as a result the flow is deleted, then you should get
> > OFPRR_GROUP_DELETE as the reason.
> >
> > --
> > Nick
> >