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| author | Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> | 2013-08-06 12:57:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> | 2013-08-13 14:39:56 -0700 |
| commit | ac923e910e15e934137b9f12997d153c83292edf (patch) | |
| tree | 79ac3ed611799a2a6ea9f2d251a2c767a93d8021 /utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in | |
| parent | ed2e72459317c689c46d3f1d279945485ff34fda (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-ac923e910e15e934137b9f12997d153c83292edf.tar.gz | |
flow: Enable matching on new field 'pkt_mark'.
The Linux kernel datapath enables matching and setting the skb mark
but this functionality is currently used only internally by
ovs-vswitchd. This exposes it through NXM to enable external
controllers to interact with other kernel subsystems. Although this
is simply exporting the skb mark, the intention is that this is a
platform independent mechanism to access some system metadata and
therefore may have different implementations on various systems.
Bug #17855
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in index 6fd03f8a8..47b591a9b 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in @@ -806,6 +806,13 @@ exactly, and a 0-bit wildcards that bit. When a packet enters an OpenFlow switch, all of the registers are set to 0. Only explicit Nicira extension actions change register values. . +.IP \fBpkt_mark=\fIvalue\fR[\fB/\fImask\fR] +Matches packet metadata mark \fIvalue\fR either exactly or with optional +\fImask\fR. The mark is associated data that may be passed into other +system components in order to facilitate interaction between subsystems. +On Linux this corresponds to the skb mark but the exact implementation is +platform-dependent. +. .PP Defining IPv6 flows (those with \fBdl_type\fR equal to 0x86dd) requires support for NXM. The following shorthand notations are available for |