"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 If a manpage says that, then it is out of date and should be updated.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.
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