On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 05:17:13PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 05:06:16PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> > On 13 April 2016 at 16:12, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:56:50PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> > >> On 12 April 2016 at 21:13, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
> > >> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:38:38AM -0700, William Tu wrote:
> > >> >> Should we expose "truncate" to the ovs-ofctl action list?
> > >> >>
> > >> >> I was thinking about this ovs-ofctl syntax:
> > >> >>     actions='output(max_len=64, port=1), output:2'
> > >> >>
> > >> >> then at datapath it translates to actions
> > >> >>     truncate(64), output(1), output(2)
> > >> >>
> > >> >> So 64B to port1, and 100B to port2.
> > >> >
> > >> > I think that's OK.
> > >> >
> > >> > Pravin or Joe, do you have an opinion?
> > >>
> > >> Seems fine.
> > >>
> > >> As an aside, it might be worth creating some tests that output to a
> > >> bond port to ensure that case works, in addition to the existing
> > >> cases.
> > >
> > > I don't know what that means; there are no "bond ports" at the OpenFlow
> > > level.
> > 
> > I meant, to configure a bond and use that port as the output, to check
> > for corner cases where the datapath flows break up the output across
> > two flows (recirc + actual output)
> 
> Oh, I guess that could be possible if one used "output(max_len=64,
> port=NORMAL)".  It's quite a corner case!

Also I wonder whether truncated output to FLOOD or ALL should be
well-defined.  We could just forbid them I suppose.
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