Thanks for the clarification!

Thanks

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think you want packet->size instead of sizeof *packet, but otherwise
> that seems reasonable enough.
>
> If you plan to have the controller send packets back through the
> switch as OpenFlow "packet-out" messages, then you'll need some way to
> avoid looping those back out to the controller, too.
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 01:35:17PM -0700, Abhishek Chanda wrote:
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>> I do not have a tight performance constraint for now. So, I think I
>> will work with the userspace datapath.
>> I think I need to modify dp_netdev_execute_actions in
>> lib/dpif-netdev.c and add a condition like:
>> if (sizeof(*packet) > threshold)
>>      dp_netdev_output_port(dp, packet, nl_attr_get_u32(a));
>> before the switch starts.
>>
>> Please let me know if I am missing something else.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:02:50AM -0700, Abhishek Chanda wrote:
>> >> I have a requirement where I need to send all packets beyond a
>> >> specific size to the controller, I am pretty sure that this is very
>> >> specific to my case a not a general scenario. I am trying to modify
>> >> OVS to do this. I noticed that the vswicthd maintains all net devices,
>> >> so I think I need to change the ofproto_run function in ofproto.c. But
>> >> I could not find a place where a network device is read and the packet
>> >> is processed. Where else should I look?
>> >
>> > What are your performance requirements?  If they are low, then you can
>> > use the userspace datapath and modify lib/dpif-netdev.c.  If they are
>> > high, then you will have to modify the kernel module in datapath/ to
>> > be able to do this.
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