On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:13:27AM +0100, Przemyslaw Szczerbik wrote:
> This patch implements support for per-flow TCP IPFIX counters. It's based on 
> RFC
> 5102, section 5.10.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Przemyslaw Szczerbik <[email protected]>

Thanks for working on IPFIX!

I suggest folding in an update to NEWS to mention this new feature,
e.g.:

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7a2b185bbd84..ab2faec02e57 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ Post-v2.7.0
        Log level can be changed in a usual OVS way using
        'ovs-appctl vlog' commands for 'dpdk' module. Lower bound
        still can be configured via extra arguments for DPDK EAL.
-   - IPFIX now provides additional counters for totals since startup.
+   - IPFIX now provides additional counters:
+     * Total counters since metering process startup.
+     * Per-flow TCP flag counters.
    - New support for multiple VLANs (802.1ad or "QinQ"), including a new
      "dot1q-tunnel" port VLAN mode.
    - In ovn-vsctl and vtep-ctl, record UUIDs in commands may now be

However, I am worried about this feature.  I suspect that it does not
report correct statistics.  It infers that, if a flow's tcp_flags
contains a given flag, then that flag has been seen on every packet.
But this is incorrect: in fact, it only means that the flag has been
seen on at least one packet.
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