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authorEthan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>2011-10-28 14:46:42 -0700
committerEthan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>2011-10-28 18:16:40 -0700
commit848e88098fec85336b89c0c652c1d91577c87b11 (patch)
tree8010a3786111564cbfd3aa57ff0167b68012773a /utilities
parentdb968317f3ab4c44dedd9a125333edaed1924de2 (diff)
nicira-ext: New action "exit".
The exit action causes the switch to immediately halt processing of further actions. It's intended to be used in conjunction with multi table support. It allows a table to force tables which call it to discontinue processing a flow.
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-rw-r--r--utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in6
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diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
index 215f8f92..007b54a8 100644
--- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
@@ -898,6 +898,12 @@ with no match criteria. (This is why the default \fBtable\fR is 1, to
keep the learned flows separate from the primary flow table 0.)
.RE
.
+.IP "\fBexit\fR"
+This action causes Open vSwitch to immediately halt execution of further
+actions. Those actions which have already been executed are unaffected. Any
+further actions, including those which may be in other tables, or different
+levels of the \fBresubmit\fR call stack, are ignored.
+.
.PP
The \fBadd\-flow\fR, \fBadd\-flows\fR, and \fBmod\-flows\fR commands
support an additional optional field: