[ovs-discuss] Priority of flows in openvswitch code

[Sumit Paliwal]

(1) I want to know that, I'm sending two different paths for one
destination from controller to switch, I've set different priorities for
both of them, and I could see those flows properly inserted in the flow
table with ofctl command. But now if it is not possible to access the
priority from kernel, from where can i access that.
or
Is there any else parameter that i can use to differentiate these 2 flows
from kernel.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:11:36AM +0530, Sumit Paliwal wrote:
> > (1) if I have to differentiate two flows having same source and
> destination
> > but different next hop, on which value I can?
>
> What?
>
> > (2) when i'm using the ovs-ofctl dump-flows s1 command, it shows the
> > priority of flows as 55555, which I've sent from the controller. So it
> > means, it have stored it somewhere, right!!. While compiling I'm using
> the
> > "./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build " , so i've taken
> > care that it is a kernel implementation in the system. Then Why is the
> > priority reflected overthere.
>
> The priority is not stored in the kernel, so you will not have any
> luck looking for it there.
>
> > (3) In sw_flow_key structure, it has a "u32 priority" variable declared,
> > what is that used for?
>
> As the comment says, it is a QoS priority.
>



-- 
Sumit Paliwal
M.Tech. ICT,
IIT Jodhpur


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