i think i can 'ride on' the callback "dpctl_put_flow" - which is invoked whenever the cli 'ovs-dpctl add-flow' is executed.correct ?
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:32 AM Sara Gittlin <[email protected]> wrote: > Billy, > Can you please refer me to the code where we start the megaflow creation > to the kernel upon an upcall, and where we send it to the kernel via the > netlink socket ? > what i want to do is - to generate megaflows, based on openflow tables, > not neccesararily upon an upcall, that is not reactive mode and to send to > the kernel. > Another question is, who is responsible to associate a specific > megaflow to the appropriate table in the cache ? is it the kernel > module or vswitchd ? > Thank you > -Sara > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:12 PM Sara Gittlin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thank you Ben and Billy >> -Sara >> >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 11:27 AM O Mahony, Billy < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Sara, >>> >>> This article >>> https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/ovs-dpdk-datapath-classifier >>> gives practical overview of how megaflows, aka wildcarded or datapath >>> flows, work at least in the ovs-dpdk (userspace datapath) context. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Billy >>> >>> > -----Original Message----- >>> > From: [email protected] [mailto:ovs-discuss- >>> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Pfaff >>> > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 5:10 PM >>> > To: Sara Gittlin <[email protected]> >>> > Cc: [email protected] >>> > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Mega-flow generation >>> > >>> > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 02:46:19PM +0300, Sara Gittlin wrote: >>> > > Can someone refer me to the code of the megaflow generation process ? >>> > > Is this process invoked by an upcall from the kernel module ? like >>> in >>> > > microflow ? >>> > >>> > Did you read the OVS paper? It's all about megaflows. >>> > http://www.openvswitch.org/support/papers/nsdi2015.pdf >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > discuss mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss >>> >>
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