[ovs-discuss] flow_limit question?

[Ray Li]

I'm sorry my mistake. I definitely misread that paragraph all this time.

Thanks,
Ray

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 12:44 PM Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 12:16:10PM -0700, Ray Li wrote:
> > In the OVS documentation, it states that the flow_limit field is used for
> > temporary flows, and permanent flows (defined as flows without and
> > idle_timeout or hard_timeout) does not count towards the flow_limit.
> >
> > However in the unit test cases it's cleared that the permanent flows do
> > count towards the limit. If you add permanent flows up to the flow_limit
> > and try to add more, it fails immediately.
> >
> > This is a bug or a documentation issue? Or am I interpreting the
> > documentation wrong?
>
> Permanent flows count against flow_limit, but they cannot be evicted.
> The documentation says:
>
>     The eviction process only considers flows that have an idle timeout
>     or a hard timeout. That is, eviction never deletes permanent
>     flows. (Permanent flows do count against flow_limit.)
>
> If it's not clear, can you suggest some edits or places that it can be
> improved?
>
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