On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:42:36PM +0000, Gray, Mark D wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:28:56AM -0600, swair shah wrote: > > > When packets which does not match any rule in ovs, are buffered at the > > > ingress switch, say first n packets are buffered. Switch sends a > > > flow_mod and message and packet_out for the buffered packets, > > > meanwhile if some more packets of the same flow arrive (say n+1 to m), > > > they'll also get buffered (as flow_mod) hasn't arrived yet. > > > > > > Once flow_mod message arrives at the switch then subsequent packets of > > > the flow will be forwarded but packets (n+1 to m) will still be > > > buffered waiting for their packet_outs. This results in reordering of > > packets. > > > > > > Is there a way around this, besides from proactively setting up a flow? > > > > > > Is there a way to match flow_mod to existing buffered packets? > > > > Reordering can happen. There isn't a way to avoid it entirely (besides > > proactive flow setup). It isn't usually a problem, though, because most > > protocols only send one packet before they receive a reply from the > > opposite end. > > The only way that I can think to nail up a flow is via dpctl. Is this how you > suggest to do this?
Can you be more specific about what you want to do? I can think of a few possibilities. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
