The message indicates that a flow is already installed and will be hit the next time a packet is processed for it. No packets have been discarded.
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Naveed Abbas <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for clarification.... by the way it means that no flow will be > installed in the flow tables for such packet. does this imply that the > packet will always be discarded? > > Syed Naveed Abbas Rizvi > > > > ________________________________ > From: Justin Pettit <[email protected]> > To: Naveed Abbas <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, 17 August 2013, 16:58 > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs-dpctl: flows with used=never > > It means that a packet has never matched that flow in the datapath. The > packet that generated the flow was handled by ovs-vswitchd, so it's not > accounted for in the datapath flow table. > > --Justin > > > On Aug 17, 2013, at 6:33 AM, Naveed Abbas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear All > > I was wondering what is meant by used =never parameter in the output of > ovs-dpctl dump-flows command. As far as I know dump-flow command prints > flows that were recently matched in the switch flow tables, then what does > never mean in this context? > > Syed Naveed Abbas Rizvi > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
