On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 01:30:38PM -0700, Rob Sherwood wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > OpenFlow messages are limited to 64 kB. ?The possibility for multiple > > replies overcomes this limit. ?What alternative do you propose? > > This is already a limiting factor in many non-stats operations : it > just seems strange to have a work around for stats only. > > For example, the 64k message size already limits the number of ports > returned in features_reply, so why worry about more than 64k worth of > messages in port_stats?
I'd support fixing the features reply. It was designed before the stats mechanism was invented. Open vSwitch supports millions of flows. You can't wedge that information into a 64 kB flow stats reply. _______________________________________________ openflow-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss
