ofp-actions: Add decoding and encoding OF1.1 instructions and actions.

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / DESIGN

diff --git a/DESIGN b/DESIGN
index 7dd6efa..b06751f 100644 (file)
--- a/DESIGN
+++ b/DESIGN
@@ -628,6 +628,19 @@ against desired actions in a bytewise fashion:
         - Open vSwitch zeros padding bytes in action structures,
           regardless of their values when the flows were added.
 
         - Open vSwitch zeros padding bytes in action structures,
           regardless of their values when the flows were added.
 

+        - Open vSwitch "normalizes" the instructions in OpenFlow 1.1
+          (and later) in the following way:
+
+              * OVS sorts the instructions into the following order:
+                Apply-Actions, Clear-Actions, Write-Actions,
+                Write-Metadata, Goto-Table.
+
+              * OVS drops Apply-Actions instructions that have empty
+                action lists.
+
+              * OVS drops Write-Actions instructions that have empty
+                action sets.
+

 Please report other discrepancies, if you notice any, so that we can
 fix or document them.
 
 Please report other discrepancies, if you notice any, so that we can
 fix or document them.