[ovs-discuss] Fwd: question regarding openflow flow table

2010-12-16 Thread Haris Rotsos
Hello everybody, I am currently using openvswitch as an openflow switch and nox as the controller, within which which I am writting a test module in python. The module inserts a few exact match flows in the openflow switch. I noticed using ovs-ofctl that openvswitch has 2 tables : hash with

Re: [ovs-discuss] Fwd: question regarding openflow flow table

2010-12-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Haris Rotsos cr...@cam.ac.uk wrote: I noticed using ovs-ofctl that openvswitch has 2 tables : hash with wildcard 0x00 and classifier with wildcard 0x3f. My understanding is that the first table is used for exact matches flows, while the second is used

Re: [ovs-discuss] Fwd: question regarding openflow flow table

2010-12-16 Thread Haris Rotsos
Dear Ben, thanks a lot for your quick answer. Following your answer, the insertion of exact match rules in the classifier table doesn't have an impact on the switching performance and is the default behaviour expected from openvswitch? The linear search mode for the classifier table, was only a

Re: [ovs-discuss] Fwd: question regarding openflow flow table

2010-12-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 04:11:16PM +, Haris Rotsos wrote: Following your answer, the insertion of exact match rules in the classifier table doesn't have an impact on the switching performance and is the default behaviour expected from openvswitch? (Is that what you were really asking about