On 11/5/24 12:08, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 11/5/24 12:01, Ales Musil wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 11:47 AM Ilya Maximets <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 11/5/24 09:30, Ales Musil wrote:
>>     > The ofproto/detrace command wouldn't output anything when the cache
>>     > is empty. Add option to explicitly populate the cache when empty.
>>
>>     Hi, Ales.  Thanks for the patch!  But why is this needed?
>>     The cache is only not available until the first revalidation
>>     that should happen shortly after the flow installation.
>>
>>     I still think that practically revalidating the ukey from
>>     a debug appctl is not a good thing to do.  So, I'd like to
>>     avoid that, unless there is a good reason for doing so.
>>
>>     We may print a message that translation cache is not available
>>     yet, if that's the concern.
>>
>>     Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
>>
>>
>> Hi Ilya,
>>
>> there are certain situations when there isn't any output
>> but it would be nice to have one. The example that comes to
>> my mind is arp sent from ovn-controller.
> 
> Why do we have a datapath flow for a packet generated by the
> controller?

More importantly, why can't we wait half a second until the
next revalidation?

> 
>> I understand that it shouldn't
>> be done all the time, but upon request it seems reasonable.
> 
> The problem with this is if there is an option, users will use
> it every time.
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ales
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Ales Musil
>>
>> Senior Software Engineer - OVN Core
>>
>> Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com>
>>
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
>>
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>>
> 

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