On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:58 PM, r devarajan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>           I have a misunderstanding withe the source code. In
> "openvswitch.h"  under "ovs_action_attr" the action types defined does not
> adhere to the openflow specification : openflow-spec-v1.1.0  (the
> implemented version, at least that's what it says), specifically the group
> action (which is a required action) has not been defined and so it has'nt
> been implemented  do_execute_actions as well so how can a packet access
> group actions from the datapath. However there is the implementation in the
> control path with the OFPGC11_ADD, etc . please do help me with this
> dilemma. Thanks :)

The actions implemented in the kernel are related to but not the same
as OpenFlow actions. In general they are simpler and not tied to
particular OpenFlow versions. Userspace can use these primitives to
implement OpenFlow.
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