On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:09:21AM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote: > > On Oct 23, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 05:20:41PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote: > >> OpenFlow 1.1+ specs encourage switches to verify action consistency > >> at flow setup time. Implement this for OpenFlow 1.1+ only to not > >> break any current OF 1.0 based use. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajaha...@nicira.com> > > > > I'm a little concerned about enforcing consistency in Write-Actions. I > > don't think we can do it in such a strict manner, anyway. As written, I > > believe that this will reject, for example, a Write-Actions to push a > > VLAN if there is one already, even if a later Apply-Actions might strip > > the VLAN. I doubt that's desirable or the intent of the standard. > > I did not come to think of this.. It seems Write-Actions are like > Group bucket actions in this regard, they do not apply in the > context of a specific flow match only, but at a later stage, so > there is not enough context at flow setup time to enforce > consistency. Would you think that just not enforcing consistency for > Write-Actions at all is the proper way to handle this?
I'm inclined to believe that, yes. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
