[ovs-discuss] [OVN] [networking-ovn] [networking-sfc] SFC and OVN

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Thu May 26 00:44:43 UTC 2016


On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 09:27:31AM -0500, Ryan Moats wrote:
> As I understand it, Table 0 identifies the logical port and logical
> flow. I'm worried that this means we'll end up with separate bucket
> rules for each ingress port of the port pairs that make up a port
> group, leading to a cardinality product in the number of rules.
> I'm trying to think of a way where Table 0 could identify the packet
> as being part of a particular port group, and then I'd only need one
> set of bucket rules to figure out the egress side.  However, the
> amount of free metadata space is limited and so before we go down
> this path, I'm going to pull Justin, Ben and Russell in to see if
> they buy into this idea or if they can think of an alternative.

I've barely been following the discussion, so a recap of the question
here would help a lot.



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