Revalidation doesn't have a packet, so the translation function should
work even without a packet.  If it doesn't that's a bug; please report
the details.

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:00:42PM +0200, Amrane Ait Zeouay wrote:
> Thank you for your answers, I read the PDF about the talk, and I will see
> the video Tomorrow, but I'm still a little confused, because I'm sending
> the packet to the function "classifier_lookup()" for looking into it, but
> when the OvS use the function revalidate I got an exception because there
> is no packet for revalidate.
> 
> Thank you and have a nice day,
> Best regards,
> 
> 2016-08-10 21:55 GMT+02:00 Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:28:00PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> > > On 10 August 2016 at 09:49, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:59:27AM +0200, Amrane Ait Zeouay wrote:
> > > >> I'm working on OvS 2.5.0, and I want to know the interest of using
> > > >> revalidator, what I know it revalidates the flow in dathapath or
> > something
> > > >> like that,
> > > >
> > > > Yes.
> > > >
> > > >> and i want to know if in the process of revalidation is there the
> > > >> packet (dp_packet) or not ?
> > > >
> > > > No.
> > > >
> > > > You may want to read our NSDI 2015 paper, which discusses revalidation.
> > > > http://openvswitch.org/support/papers/nsdi2015.pdf
> > >
> > > There is also a talk called "Revaliwhat? Keeping kernel flows fresh"
> > > from OVScon 2014:
> > > http://openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2014/
> >
> > Definitely the best title from that conference!
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Amrane Ait Zeouay
> 
> Engineer Student in The Development of Software and Systems
> 
> University of Western Brittany
> 
> Tel:  +33 7 62 25 56 03 <+33+7+62+25+56+03>
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