What do you mean by "two different switches"?  If you are talking about
two different ovs-vswitchd processes, then yes of course they would be
independent.  If you are talking about different bridges implemented by
a single ovs-vswitchd process, then whether they are distinct would
depend on how you implemented the action.

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:53:22PM +0000, Luca Mancini wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> I feel like I'm missing something, my action simply stores 5 packets, but 
> shouldn't two "buffering" flows installed on two different switches be 2 
> separate instances of that action, i.e. both store 5 different packets? What 
> happens is 2 switches that use that buffering action (in two separate flows) 
> add the packets to the same buffer.
> 
> From: Ben Pfaff<mailto:b...@ovn.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 18:33
> To: Luca Mancini<mailto:luca.manc...@outlook.com>
> Cc: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org<mailto:ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org>
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] different flow actions overlap
> 
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 11:08:16AM +0000, Luca Mancini wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have two different flows on the same switch:
> >
> > ovs-ofctl add-flow s1 
> > in_port=1,dl_type=2048,nw_proto=17,nw_dst=10.0.0.4,action=buffer:3
> > ovs-ofctl add-flow s1 
> > in_port=1,dl_type=2048,nw_proto=17,nw_dst=10.0.0.2,action=buffer:2
> >
> > these flows are supposed to buffer packets meant for the destination 
> > specified by nw_dst, and send the whole buffer as a new packet through the 
> > port specified (3 or 2) . My problem is that the packets that hit the 
> > different flows end up in the same buffer, shouldn’t hitting a different 
> > flow create a new instance of that action?
> >
> > If it helps diagnose the issue, the buffer action is implemented in 
> > ofproto-dpif-xlate.c, so only works in userspace.
> 
> This seems like an odd question.  "buffer" is an action that you
> invented and implemented, I think, so it can only do what you made it
> do.  If it's not doing what you want, then maybe your code has a bug?
> 
> I don't know what an "instance" of an action is.
> 
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