[ovs-discuss] Multiple instances of the same action

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 01:14:04PM +0000, Luca Mancini wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a way to have multiple  instances of the same action. For example I implemented a Buffering action as detailed previously in
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2020-June/050197.html
> so my question is, is there a way to install two different flows on the same switch, which both use the same BUFFER action, in order to buffer separately without packets overlapping.
> For example:
> 
> h1—s1---s2—h3
>          |       |
>        h2    h4
> 
> I install 2 flows to use the action: BUFFER for packets from h1 to h3
> and from h2 to h4, without having packets from the first flow buffered
> with packets from the second flow. It’s probably some special property
> that the action should have, but I can’t seem to find it

Oh, now I see that you asked about instances before.

I'd suggest just adding another parameter to the action that could be
used to partition one "instance" from another.