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vswitchd: Deprecate packet buffering in OVS 2.6.
authorJarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:38:40 +0000 (11:38 -0700)
committerJarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:38:40 +0000 (11:38 -0700)
commit54b78c9501f7887e1a2d6290ef1d44ee42a9222f
treee9be5be59816efbc7e136b4ac2551e34a73b6f06
parent9ab989b7b6eaa781663f090dd2b366bf98dc02ee
vswitchd: Deprecate packet buffering in OVS 2.6.

OVS implementation of buffering packets that are sent to the
controller is not compliant with the OpenFlow specifications after
OpenFlow 1.0.  OVS implementation executes the buffered packet against
the actions of the modified or added rule, whereas OpenFlow (since
1.1) specifies that the packet should be matched against the flow
table 0 and processed accordingly.

Rather than fix this behavior, and potentially break OVS users, we
propose to remove the feature altogether, starting in OVS 2.7.  This
patch announces this in 'NEWS' for OVS 2.6, and adds detail to the FAQ
question about backet buffering.

Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
FAQ.md
NEWS