On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:51:59PM +0000, Gray, Mark D wrote: > After receiving a miss upcall for a flow, the flow entry is put into > the datapath flow table. Along with that flow entry, a number packet > messages may be sent to the datapath until the entry is put into the > table. > > DPIF allows clients to query flow entries using the dpif_flow_get() > function. This returns, among other things, dpif_flow_stats. Do these > stats only refer to the table entry or should they also include the > contribution from the packet message? I realise that the extra > contribution due to the packet message is small but I would like to > confirm expected behaviour.
The initial message doesn't get directly processed by the flow (it's sent via a separate "execute" request) so it doesn't count in the datapath flow stats. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
