"Avi Cohen (A)" <[email protected]> writes: >> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 12:11:19PM +0000, Avi Cohen (A) wrote: >> > Megaflows is a kind of 'flows/rules compression' with don't care >> > bits. (correct me if I'm wrong) But this is in a contradiction to what is >> > written >> in the manpages: " dpctl shows only exact-match flows of >> > packets that traverse the datapath lately" >> >> If a manpage says that, then it is out of date and should be updated. I >> cannot >> see what manpage contains that statement. Can you point it out, so that we >> can fix it? > [Avi Cohen (A)] > Ben - sorry - probably I made a mistake > I've quote from this : > https://airtoncs.wordpress.com/2016/04/06/differences-between-ovs-ofctl-and-ovs-dpctl/: > > "As the manpage says: > > This command is primarily useful for debugging Open vSwitch. The flow > table entries that it displays are not OpenFlow flow entries. Instead, > they are different and considerably simpler flows maintained by the > Open vSwitch kernel module. > > In a little more detail, the flows that ovs-dpctl prints are always > exact-match. They reflect packets that have actually passed through > the system in the last 5 seconds or so. "
That language doesn't currently appear in the manpages, as far as I can tell. Perhaps it did at one point, although doing a `git log --grep` wasn't enlightening. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
