[ovs-discuss] Revalidator

[Joe Stringer]

On 10 August 2016 at 09:49, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:59:27AM +0200, Amrane Ait Zeouay wrote:
>> I'm working on OvS 2.5.0, and I want to know the interest of using
>> revalidator, what I know it revalidates the flow in dathapath or something
>> like that,
>
> Yes.
>
>> and i want to know if in the process of revalidation is there the
>> packet (dp_packet) or not ?
>
> No.
>
> You may want to read our NSDI 2015 paper, which discusses revalidation.
> http://openvswitch.org/support/papers/nsdi2015.pdf

There is also a talk called "Revaliwhat? Keeping kernel flows fresh"
from OVScon 2014:
http://openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2014/