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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> | 2018-05-03 23:27:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> | 2018-05-07 14:07:43 -0700 |
| commit | f4b72cb44524fa9d3f504c43bd006ca8a471579b (patch) | |
| tree | eae5a5ef1de4ed8e1a4b817ef84c95e38e2ea100 /lib | |
| parent | 254878c18874f6cb43a7601427d0cc30834ab64a (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-f4b72cb44524fa9d3f504c43bd006ca8a471579b.tar.gz | |
ovs-vswitchd: Better document that ovs-vswitchd manages its own datapaths.
More explicitly discourage users from managing them themselves.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/dpctl.man | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/dpctl.man b/lib/dpctl.man index 9e9d2dc17..50623c4a9 100644 --- a/lib/dpctl.man +++ b/lib/dpctl.man @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +Do not use commands to add or remove or modify datapaths if +\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR is running because this interferes with +\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR's own datapath management. .TP \*(DX\fBadd\-dp \fIdp\fR [\fInetdev\fR[\fB,\fIoption\fR]...] Creates datapath \fIdp\fR, with a local port also named \fIdp\fR. @@ -89,8 +92,10 @@ The following commands are primarily useful for debugging Open vSwitch. The flow table entries (both matches and actions) that they work with are not OpenFlow flow entries. Instead, they are different and considerably simpler flows maintained by the Open vSwitch kernel -module. Use \fBovs\-ofctl\fR(8), instead, to work with OpenFlow flow -entries. +module. Do not use commands to add or remove or modify datapath flows +if \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR is running because it interferes with +\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR's own datapath flow management. Use +\fBovs\-ofctl\fR(8), instead, to work with OpenFlow flow entries. . .PP The \fIdp\fR argument to each of these commands is optional when |