[ovs-discuss] insert-buckets support?

[Ray Li]

According to ovs-ofctl's man page, if no bucket_id is specified it's
support to allocate one. Is that not being done? Or is that the bug itself?

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:46:16AM -0700, Ray Li wrote:
> > Does OVS 2.4 support ovs-ofctl insert-buckets?
> >
> > I just upgraded to OVS 2.4.0, and here's what I tried to do:
> >
> > ovs-vsctl set bridge br0
> >
> protocols=OpenFlow10,OpenFlow11,OpenFlow12,OpenFlow13,OpenFlow14,OpenFlow15
> >
> > ovs-ofctl add-group br0 group_id=0,type=all,bucket="actions=output:10" -O
> > OpenFlow11
> >
> > ovs-ofctl dump-groups br0 -O OpenFlow11
> > (which shows the groups table correctly with a single bucket)
> >
> > ovs-ofctl insert-buckets br0
> > group_id=0,command_bucket_id=last,bucket="actions=output:1" -O OpenFlow15
> >
> > ovs-ofctl dump-groups br0 -O OpenFlow11
> > (This then hangs indefinitely)
>
> It's a bug, thanks for reporting it.
>
> The underlying problem is that in both cases no bucket_id was specified,
> so it defaults to the same value in each case, and duplicate bucket IDs
> were not correctly handled.  You can avoid the problem by specifying a
> different bucket_it in your "insert-buckets" command.
>
> I posted a fix.  You can test it by applying the following two patches,
> in this order:
>         http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-September/059865.html
>         http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-September/059864.html
>
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