On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I'd be inclined to wait until we have a non-synthetic report of a problem that is solved by this. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
