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> _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss