Sure Jozef. Thanks :)

> On Dec 2, 2016, at 4:16 AM, Jozef Bacigál <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> if we decide to revert back to previous behavior I prepared a patch in 
> stable/boron branch.
> 
> https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/48913/
> 
> Luis can you please run the test with this patch, to be sure it is working ?
> 
> Jozef
> 
> ________________________________________
> Od: Luis Gomez <[email protected]>
> Odoslané: 2. decembra 2016 1:21
> Komu: [email protected]
> Predmet: [openflowplugin-dev] Flows not showing in operational
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just want to bring this thread up front along with what we talked this 
> morning. Basically the change of behavior introduced in 
> https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/47138 to fix Bug 6917 is what put me 
> on alert as now alien flows will not show in operational DS unless they are 
> the result of an RPC call, and even in that case they disappear after a 
> controller or switch reboot.
> 
> This means the following flows will be hidden to ODL users:
> 
> - Config DS flows failing the matching function: I posted a simple example in 
> https://bugs.opendaylight.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7258 but some experimenter 
> matches (nicira, etc..) for example are not supported by matching function 
> today.
> - RPC flows after switch or controller restart.
> - Any flow introduced by user, other controller or by switch itself on the 
> switch. This is not common but can happen and flows in operational help to 
> debug situations like this.
> 
> This is not a neglect-able impact so at least in Boron I think we should come 
> back to old behavior and try to fix Bug 6917 other way. Still if the change 
> of behavior is required by some use case we can set some config knob to 
> switch it on.
> 
> BR/Luis
> 
> 
> 
>> On Nov 29, 2016, at 8:53 PM, Luis Gomez <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> And lets talk about this patch on next ofplugin call as I do not conceive a 
>> controller not able to show all flows installed in the switches regardless 
>> of who pushed them. Flows dictate forward behavior and therefore all of them 
>> are relevant for users and applications.
>> 
>> BR/Luis
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 29, 2016, at 7:58 PM, Shuva Jyoti Kar <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sure, would take into the bugs :)
>>> 
>>> Thanks Luis
>>> 
>>> -shuva
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Luis Gomez [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 9:00 AM
>>> To: Shuva Jyoti Kar
>>> Cc: Anil Vishnoi; [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: OF Reconciliation
>>> 
>>> Shuva, there is something weird here: if I configure flows via RPC and then 
>>> I restart OF channel, the flows disappear from operational, I do not think 
>>> this is good so this is why I opened a bug. Also personally I do not like 
>>> the idea of not seen all flows present in the switch in the operational DS 
>>> but that is another discussion.
>>> 
>>> BR/Luis
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 29, 2016, at 7:22 PM, Shuva Jyoti Kar 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Luis Gomez [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 4:24 AM
>>>> To: Shuva Jyoti Kar
>>>> Cc: Anil Vishnoi; [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: OF Reconciliation
>>>> 
>>>> Extremely sorry Luis, had marked your email to reply, but failed to do so, 
>>>> my bad :(
>>>> 
>>>> If we are using rpc to provision a flow, the flowid would be present in 
>>>> the device flow registry, hence you would get it in the operDS.
>>>> But if we go and provision a flow in the switch (using cli/switch restconf 
>>>> etc) you would not.
>>>> This was changed as a part of Bug 6917 
>>>> (https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/c/47138/) since we were ending up 
>>>> in a race between provisioning and stats polling.
>>>> 
>>>> thanks
>>>> -shuva
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> So I guess this is a bug if nobody can explain the new behavior:
>>>> 
>>>> https://bugs.opendaylight.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7268
>>>> 
>>>> I also reported another bug earlier this week about reporting flows in 
>>>> operational:
>>>> 
>>>> https://bugs.opendaylight.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7258
>>>> 
>>>> BR/Luis
>>>> 
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