Thanks for all your answers, I was not sure where to ask this.

The reason I ask this is because:

a) I think it would be an useful feature that, I think. wouldn't "hurt
anyone".

b) I found this (old) conversation (
https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/openflow-discuss/2009-December/000547.html)
where
looks like a "barrier bit" was considered in earlier implementations, and I
was curious to see if this was still a thing.

Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> escreveu no dia sábado, 2/01/2016 às 23:44:

> The basic answer to Andre's question is that no, there are no plans.
>
> The right place to bring up a proposal for such a feature is the ONF
> Open Datapath working group.
>
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 06:45:27AM +0300, Stas Kozlov wrote:
> > That's right, but Andre does not want use Barrier. From my point of view
> > the barrier messages are suitable in most cases, but I have a feeling
> that
> > one more cycle for control plane might be a burden for weak cpu.
> >
> > -- Stas
> > On 2 Jan 2016 10:25 am, "Justin Pettit" <jpet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > That's true, but to know that it completed without an error, you can
> send
> > > a barrier message to know that the switch fully processed the request.
> > >
> > > --Justin
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jan 1, 2016, at 7:21 PM, Stas Kozlov <mancubu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > This duty should be done by controller. In case a flow can not be
> modified
> > > or added  a switch response with error message. In case message was
> > > delivered tcp.ack will be generated according tcp flow. Controller may
> > > handle both events.
> > >
> > > Faithfully yours
> > > Stas
> > >
> > > > Message: 2
> > > > Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 17:46:52 +0000
> > > > From: Andr? Mantas <andremant...@gmail.com>
> > > > To: openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu,
> > > >         "openflow-supp...@lists.stanford.edu"
> > > >         <openflow-supp...@lists.stanford.edu>
> > > > Subject: [openflow-discuss] Positive ACK
> > > > Message-ID:
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> > > cap-yg6ojhksvwc32ynt_d3yhgh-0o-v2yrxmv5eo5h0ohwy...@mail.gmail.com>
> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> > > >
> > > > Hello.
> > > >
> > > > Are there any plans to include the possibility of having per-message
> > > > positive ACK in OpenFlow? (e.g., a flag in a flow mod that tells the
> > > switch
> > > > to send an ack when it receives/processes the flow mod message).
> > > >
> > > > I know this can be done with the use of barriers, but I think it
> would be
> > > > better to have some option to achieve this without using a barrier
> per
> > > > message.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
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