[ovs-discuss] MAC Learning event to Controller

Vasu Dasari vdasari at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 16:52:32 UTC 2020


There is no reason for duplication, other than the reason for symmetricity
of APIs, "send_flow_rem"(which already exists) and "send_flow_add"(could be
added).

-Vasu

*Vasu Dasari*


On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 11:41 AM Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 10:37:42AM -0500, Vasu Dasari wrote:
> > Ben,
> >
> > Thanks for the response.
> >
> > I expect the Learning event to come to the controller when a "learn"
> > happens. In this case(as in tutorial), when a learn event happens, a new
> > mac entry is added to table 10. Controller just needs to know that a
> learn
> > event happened on this {port, Mac, Vlan}. This information is
> sufficiently
> > populated in new flow information being added to table "10". So, I am
> > leaning towards using a flow-monitoring on the table to see when an entry
> > is added or removed to rely on MAC entry got added or removed to the
> > switching pipeline.
> >
> > "learn" action has options like "limit" which limits number of entries
> > added to a table, "send_flow_rem" which tells the controller when a flow
> is
> > removed, etc. All these flags are applied on top of the flows that are
> > added. I was hoping to see an option like "send_flow_add" which tells the
> > controller when a flow is added. Maybe this could be an enhancement to
> > "learn" action. What do you think?
>
> It sounds like flow monitoring already covers that.  Is there a reason
> to duplicate the functionality?
>
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