I don't know.  I find your use case baffling.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 10:15:00PM +0000, Luca Mancini wrote:
> So if I understand this correctly, in this case on another switch where I 
> receive the bufferred packet I’ll have it’s actions in ctx set to "normal”, 
> but won’t I still have the problem of sending the packets stored inside the 
> buffered packet (once extracted)  to “normal”?
> 
> 
> From: Ben Pfaff<mailto:b...@ovn.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 23:54
> To: Luca Mancini<mailto:luca.manc...@outlook.com>
> Cc: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org<mailto:ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org>
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Storing xlate_ctx CTX
> 
> When you need to send the buffered packet, translate it first with
> xlate_actions(), passing "normal" as the set of actions.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 09:41:19PM +0000, Luca Mancini wrote:
> > Sorry, what do you mean exactly by “translate the packets using the 
> > xlate_ctx struct”? Do you mean passing "normal” to the set of actions 
> > before buffering the packet?
> >
> >
> > From: Ben Pfaff<mailto:b...@ovn.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 23:17
> > To: Luca Mancini<mailto:luca.manc...@outlook.com>
> > Cc: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org<mailto:ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org>
> > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Storing xlate_ctx CTX
> >
> > Why not just translate the packets using an xlate_ctx and passing
> > "normal" as the set of actions?
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 08:57:07PM +0000, Luca Mancini wrote:
> > > It’s quite the pickle then.
> > > Basically it’s a new action I’m trying to implement for OVS , I’ve talked 
> > > about it before here: 
> > > https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2020-June/050196.html
> > > I need a way to send the single packets to the appropriate ports, I was 
> > > using ofproto_dpif_send_packet since I can store dp_packet pointers, 
> > > however it doesn’t seem to work on non-physical ports (OFPP_NORMAL etc.) 
> > > , and the only function I found that does is obviously the output 
> > > function, so I’m attempting to hack my way through it to use it in my 
> > > favor given that I can’t store the original ctx pointer.
> > > The only temporary solution I have in place is iterating through the 
> > > switch’s available ports and flooding the single packets, but this is 
> > > very ugly let alone inefficient in bigger topologies.
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Ben Pfaff<mailto:b...@ovn.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 22:45
> > > To: Luca Mancini<mailto:luca.manc...@outlook.com>
> > > Cc: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org<mailto:ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Storing xlate_ctx CTX
> > >
> > > This is probably not a good solution to your problem.  I don't
> > > understand your overall problem, so I can't suggest a good solution.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 08:08:40PM +0000, Luca Mancini wrote:
> > > > I thought so, what about hard coding a ctx struct, i need this 
> > > > particular struct since I'd like to send the single packets received by 
> > > > a switch (after storing them) to the NORMAL logical port, or even just 
> > > > resubmit them to the flow tables so they can match another flow, and 
> > > > all the functions that do these things necess struct xlate_ctx.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > From: Ben Pfaff<mailto:b...@ovn.org>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 21:50
> > > > To: Luca Mancini<mailto:luca.manc...@outlook.com>
> > > > Cc: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org<mailto:ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org>
> > > > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Storing xlate_ctx CTX
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 03:13:27PM +0000, Luca Mancini wrote:
> > > > > Are there ways in OVS store a struct xlate_ctx *ctx so that I can use
> > > > > it even after another packet is received by the switch?
> > > >
> > > > No.
> > > >
> > >
> >
> 

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