</p>
</column>
- <column name="other_config" key="force-miss-model">
- <p>
- Specifies userspace behaviour for handling flow misses. This takes
- precedence over flow-eviction-threshold.
- </p>
- <p>
- <dl>
- <dt><code>auto</code></dt>
- <dd>Handle automatically based on the flow-eviction-threshold and
- the flow setup governer (default, recommended).</dd>
- <dt><code>with-facets</code></dt>
- <dd>Always create facets. Expensive kernel flow creation and
- statistics tracking is always performed, even on flows with only
- a small number of packets.</dd>
- <dt><code>without-facets</code></dt>
- <dd>Always handle without facets. Forces flow misses to be handled
- in userspace. May cause an increase in CPU usage and packet loss
- on high throughput.</dd>
- </dl>
- </p>
- </column>
-
<column name="other_config" key="n-handler-threads"
type='{"type": "integer", "minInteger": 1}'>
<p>
</column>
<column name="protocols">
- List of OpenFlow protocols that may be used when negotiating a
- connection with a controller. A default value of
- <code>OpenFlow10</code> will be used if this column is empty.
+ <p>
+ List of OpenFlow protocols that may be used when negotiating a
+ connection with a controller. A default value of
+ <code>OpenFlow10</code> will be used if this column is empty.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ The current implementation of OpenFlow 1.4 support is not safe:
+ <code>ovs-vswitchd</code> will abort when certain unimplemented
+ features are tested. Thus, for now it is suitable only for
+ experimental use. For this reason, OpenFlow 1.4 is supported only
+ if, in addition to specifying <code>OpenFlow14</code> in this field,
+ <code>ovs-vswitchd</code> is invoked with the
+ <code>--enable-of14</code> option. (When support becomes safe, this
+ option will be removed.)
+ </p>
</column>
</group>
one flow table. Currently this limit is 3.
</p>
</column>
+
+ <group title="Common Columns">
+ The overall purpose of these columns is described under <code>Common
+ Columns</code> at the beginning of this document.
+
+ <column name="external_ids"/>
+ </group>
</table>
<table name="QoS" title="Quality of Service configuration">