Yes, tested it with more flows a while ago and it was working fine! I tried
giving selection_method=hash with the group type select. Ovs-ofctl telling
me unknown keyword. Why is that?

On Friday, June 12, 2015, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's a hash, so it's probabilistic.  You'll only get a statistically
> even distribution if you have a large number of flows.  For two flows,
> there is a 50% chance they end up in the same bucket.
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:30:37PM +0500, Haleema Sadia wrote:
> > My topology is two hosts connected to a switch and I am sending two flows
> > from host 1 to host 2. What I want to do is use the select group type
> with
> > two different buckets. But both of my flows are being mapped to one
> bucket,
> > essentially. Shouldn't the select function, which is taking a hash of
> > src/dst ports and ips, map each blow to different bucket?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > The default is a hash (not just an xor) over fields up to L4, but you
> > > can configure another method using the extensions implemented by
> > > Netronome.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:07:56PM +0500, Haleema Sadia wrote:
> > > > What is the current ovs version using for select type? As far as I
> could
> > > > understand it is taking a xor of src and destination addresses and
> tcp
> > > > ports? Is it correct?
> > > >
> > > > On Thursday, June 11, 2015, Ben Pfaff <[email protected] <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 01:13:22PM +0500, Haleema Sadia wrote:
> > > > > > I was wondering if you could help me figuring out where the
> > > algorithm for
> > > > > > the group type "select" is implemented in ovs switch files? I
> want to
> > > > > > implement a function which takes the hash of the src/dst ip, and
> > > src/dst
> > > > > > port and selects the corresponding bucket for the packet.
> > > > >
> > > > > xlate_select_group() in ofproto-dpif-xlate.c
> > > > >
> > >
>
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