On 7/1/2019 1:13 PM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 30.06.2019 7:47, Eli Britstein wrote:
>> This patch breaks ovs-dpctl dump-flows, when using TC offloads (kernel).
>>
>> I added a print in netdev_flow_dump_create, and flow_api is NULL when
>> invoking ovs-dpctl dump-flows.
>>
>> I think new netdev objects are created to the ports (netdev_open), but
>> not properly initialized.
>>
>> Could you please have a look?
>>
> Hi. This is a known thing that ovs-dpctl is no longer suitable for dumping
> of HW offloaded flows. Please, use 'ovs-appctl dpctl/dump-flows' instead.
> There was a patch for documentation in v4 of patch-set:
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> Here is the relevant thread:
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> However, I missed updating the NEWS about that change. Will send the patch
> for this soon.
>
> Best regards, Ilya Maximets.

If that so, don't you think this should be either fixed or deprecated? 
Imagine some flows are in TC and some in OVS. I guess dpctl will only 
show the OVS ones.

I know about that appctl, but at least currently it misses some 
information in the dump like "dp" and "offloaded".

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