On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:53:45PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: > 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.
I'll drop it for now then. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
