On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 06:23:49AM +0000, Avi Cohen (A) wrote: > > > 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 If a manpage says that, then it is out of date and should be updated.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. "
Looking at that blog post, it's quoting something from 2010. In 2010, the statement it makes about exact-match flows was correct, but the implementation has become more sophisticated since then. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
