On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 02:22:58PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote: > On 07/13/2015 11:22 PM, Alex Wang wrote: > > In a gateway like the VTEP L2 gateway, physical vlans belonging to > > the same logical network form a "logical switch". Each logical switch > > has a dedicated tunnel key and will keep records of all MACs learned > > from the owned vlans. So user can just send packet to a "logical > > switch" and the gateway will figure out the output port and vlan tag > > automatically. > > > > Therefore, it is not really necessary to keep record of the vlan map > > for each gateway physical port in the OVN_Southbound database using > > "gateway_ports". > > > > Thusly, this commit removes the "Gateway" table from the OVN_Southbound > > database. In the "Chassis" table, the "gateway_ports" column is replaced > > by "logical_switches" column which maps the logical switch name in the > > gateway to a logical port name that exists in the OVN_Northbound database's > > "Logical_Port" table. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com> > > I think this makes sense to me. I wonder if calling it > "logical_switches" could be confusing with the logical switch in OVN > Northbound. Maybe "vtep_logical_switches" would clarify?
Or "gateways" or "vtep_gateways". _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
