[ovs-discuss] Revalidator

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:28:00PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> 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/

Definitely the best title from that conference!