On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 01:16:10PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote: > Yeah it's trivial, I just think the feature is a bit odd/confusing. > But if you think it's useful we'll keep it.
Bug #7551, cited in the commit that introduced this feature, said: Packets that are either synthesized or consumed entirely within userspace/the controller are not consistently handled with regards to stats. Those produced by userspace are effectively going to/from the local port but they are not counted on that port. Similarly, the controller can generate packets "from" a port but we don't count that. In addition to general accounting of packets, this has correctness implications for sFlow because it creates a mismatch between what is counted and what is sampled. So the feature was introduced in part to reduce user confusion. I think a small amount of developer work and possible developer confusion is OK. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
