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authorJustin Pettit <jpettit@ovn.org>2018-06-18 08:17:36 -0700
committerJustin Pettit <jpettit@ovn.org>2018-07-06 14:23:18 -0700
commit76b0525822366b9e40f68d8d1de3ef3bf10467a4 (patch)
treef673af5e6b02434c022d2f130f4681e86216d635 /utilities
parent047791dc725812bf8d3a04840c24792c6967e48a (diff)
downloadopenvswitch-76b0525822366b9e40f68d8d1de3ef3bf10467a4.tar.gz
OpenFlow: Update documentation to indicate support for virtual meters.
Support was added in commit 9e638f223feb ("ofproto: Support action upcall meters"). Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@ovn.org> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'utilities')
-rw-r--r--utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
index c5735cafc..5a34383d0 100644
--- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
@@ -2244,13 +2244,16 @@ multiple arguments.). Unless noted otherwise only the last instance
of each field is honoured.
.PP
.IP \fBmeter=\fIid\fR
-The integer meter id of the meter.
+The identifier for the meter. An integer is used to specify a
+user-defined meter. In addition, the keywords "all", "controller", and
+"slowpath", are also supported as virtual meters. The "controller" and
+"slowpath" virtual meters apply to packets sent to the controller and to
+the OVS userspace, respectively.
+.IP
When this field is specified in \fBdel-meter\fR, \fBdump-meter\fR, or
-\fBmeter-stats\fR, the keyword "all" may be used to designate all meters.
-.
-This field is required, except for \fBmeter-stats\fR, which dumps all stats
-when this field is not specified.
-
+\fBmeter-stats\fR, the keyword "all" may be used to designate all
+meters. This field is required, except for \fBmeter-stats\fR, which
+dumps all stats when this field is not specified.
.IP \fBkbps\fR
.IQ \fBpktps\fR
The unit for the meter band rate parameters, either kilobits per second, or