[ovs-discuss] DUMP-FLOWS: ofctl dump-flows vs dpctl dump-flows

Avi Cohen (A) avi.cohen at huawei.com
Thu May 18 14:17:16 UTC 2017


I understand from manpages that dpctl shows only exact-match flows of packets that traverse the datapath lately.
So I expect to see less flows in the datapath than in openflow.  but I have  more flows in the datapath - why ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avi Cohen (A)
> Sent: Thursday, 18 May, 2017 4:37 PM
> To: 'ovs-discuss at openvswitch.org'
> Subject: DUMP-FLOWS: ofctl dump-flows vs dpctl dump-flows
> 
> Hello,
> I'm seeing in my dpctl dump-flows   about 10,000  flows,  while in ofctl dump-
> flows I see only ~ 1400 flows
> - Is this make sense ?
> - How can I associate an ofcctl flow to a dpctl flow ?  (I can see ufid only in dpctl
> dump) Best Regards, avi


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