On 2/11/26 4:49 PM, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
>
>
> On 6 Feb 2026, at 12:47, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>
>> JSON version of the route/show command prints out the internal priority
>> field. Users should not rely on this number, they should only rely on
>> the table numbers, the protocol and the longest prefix match to know
>> which route will be matched for a particular packet, all this info is
>> available in the output.
>>
>> The internal priority is a combination of that other data and differs
>> between OVS versions due to differences in the route caching
>> implementation. It is also not the rta_priority that kernel reports
>> for routes, which is confusing.
>>
>> And we do not print this number in the non-JSON version of the output.
>>
>> Fixes: d000ff1cd564 ("ovs-router: Add JSON output for 'ovs/route/show'
>> command.")
>> Reported-at:
>> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2025-September/426284.html
>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
>
> Thanks Ilya! The change looks good to me.
>
> Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>
>
Thanks! Applied and backported down to 3.6.
Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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