On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 01:17:07AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> Currently, the only use of stateful services in conntrack is
> OVN ACLs. In table pre-ACL, we send the packet to conntrack
> to track it (to get its status) and to defrag via the ct_next
> action.
> 
> As we introduce more stateful services, the ACL feature will
> have to share the conntrack module with others. As
> preparation for more stateful features like loadbalancing,
> this commit introduces a new pre-stateful table that is
> responsible to send packets through conntrack via
> ct_next action. If pre-ACL table needs to send a packet
> through conntrack, it just sets the 'reg0[0]' as 1.
> Pre-stateful table in-turn will send the packet to conntrack
> if 'reg0[0]' is 1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <g...@ovn.org>

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>
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