On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:33:12PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > When Open vSwitch sends (part of or all of) a packet to the controller, it > > keeps a copy around for a while, so that if the controller wants to send > > that packet it can refer to it by a buffer index instead of having to > > send back the entire contents. ??Until now, it has kept the packet around > > for no more than 5 seconds, but a user reported that this is not long > > enough in some conditions in the thread starting here: > > ?? > > ??https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/openflow-discuss/2011-May/002265.html > > The test that was performed was hardly real world and I would be > surprised if packets are still useful after 5 seconds of delay (at a > single switch).
It's true. If you don't think this would be useful in a real-world setting I'll drop it. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
