On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 09:48:09 +0900 (JST)
FUJITA Tomonori <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 09:42:45 +0900
> Yuichi Ito <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> some switches return the instruction list of flow_mod messages in the 
>> different order.
>>
>> for example, when a flow entry was installed with the instructions as:
>>
>>   [
>>     OFPInstructionMeter(meter_id=1),
>>     OFPInstructionActions(actions=[OFPActionOutput(port=2)])
>>   ]
>>
>> the flow_stats message may return the flow entry with the instructions as:
>>
>>   [
>>     OFPInstructionActions(actions=[OFPActionOutput(port=2)]),
>>     OFPInstructionMeter(meter_id=1)
>>   ]
>>
>> this patch makes tester.py ignore the order different.
> 
> Hmm, the order matters from the perspective of OF spec?

I do not think so.

I think that the order of instructions is not specified in OF spec.
In section 5.9 'Instructions', only the execution sequence is specified.
Since the spec said "a set of instructions", I think that it is in random order.


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