OVS sends a packet to the controller if the flow table tells it to do so. There's nothing in OpenFlow that restricts this on the basis of a flow or a response from the controller.
n_buffers is not adjustable. On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:22:38PM +0800, Big Strong wrote: > @Ben, does it mean ovs would repeatedly send packet in messages as long as > no response is got from controller? What will happen when a same packet > comes to ovs while the old packet in message is still not handled? > > Another question, is the n_buffers size adjustable using > ovs-ofctl/ovs-vsctl command? I want a larger n_buffers rather than the > default 256. > > Regards. > > 2017-03-16 4:54 GMT+08:00 Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>: > > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 01:34:56PM +0800, yiyefuping198425 wrote: > > > I'm asking for assistance to fix this issue: ovs send many packets of a > > table miss flow instead of the first packet. > > > > That's how OpenFlow works. > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > disc...@openvswitch.org > > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list disc...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss