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 If a manpage says that, then it is out of date and should be updated.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