On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:56:22AM -0700, 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 "vtep_logical_switches" column which maps the vtep logical switch name > in the gateway to a logical port name. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com> > > --- > V3->V4: > - change the column name to "vtep_logical_switches". > - adopt Ben's refinement of ovn-sb schema manual. > > ->V3: > - Realize that the Gateway table is not needed.
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
