On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 01:07:24PM -0800, Kei Nohguchi wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:57:22PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > OpenFlow has little-known support for naming tables.  Open vSwitch has
> > supported table names for ages, but it has never used or displayed them
> > outside of commands dedicated to table manipulation.  This commit adds
> > support for table names in ovs-ofctl.  When a table has a name, it displays
> > that name in flows and actions, so that, for example, the following:
> >     table=1, arp, actions=resubmit(,2)
> > might become:
> >     table=ingress_acl, arp, actions=resubmit(,mac_learning)
> > given appropriately named tables.
> > 
> > For backward compatibility, only interactive ovs-ofctl commands by default
> > display table names; to display them in scripts, use the new --names
> > option.
> > 
> > This feature was inspired by a talk that Kei Nohguchi presented at Open
> > vSwitch 2017 Fall Conference.
> > 
> > CC: Kei Nohguchi <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
> 
> Woo!  Thank you, Ben, for conidering that!
> 
> I'll apply it locally and get back to you.

Do you still plan to try this out?

I just sent out v3, but it's just a rebase:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=26321
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