On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 12:16:10PM -0700, Ray Li wrote:
> In the OVS documentation, it states that the flow_limit field is used for
> temporary flows, and permanent flows (defined as flows without and
> idle_timeout or hard_timeout) does not count towards the flow_limit.
>
> However in the unit test cases it's cleared that the permanent flows do
> count towards the limit. If you add permanent flows up to the flow_limit
> and try to add more, it fails immediately.
>
> This is a bug or a documentation issue? Or am I interpreting the
> documentation wrong?
Permanent flows count against flow_limit, but they cannot be evicted.
The documentation says:
The eviction process only considers flows that have an idle timeout
or a hard timeout. That is, eviction never deletes permanent
flows. (Permanent flows do count against flow_limit.)
If it's not clear, can you suggest some edits or places that it can be
improved?
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