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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/openvswitch.txt b/Documentation/networking/openvswitch.txt index 37c20ee2455e..b3b9ac61d29d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/openvswitch.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/openvswitch.txt @@ -131,6 +131,19 @@ performs best-effort detection of overlapping wildcarded flows and may reject some but not all of them. However, this behavior may change in future versions. +Unique flow identifiers +----------------------- + +An alternative to using the original match portion of a key as the handle for +flow identification is a unique flow identifier, or "UFID". UFIDs are optional +for both the kernel and user space program. + +User space programs that support UFID are expected to provide it during flow +setup in addition to the flow, then refer to the flow using the UFID for all +future operations. The kernel is not required to index flows by the original +flow key if a UFID is specified. + + Basic rule for evolving flow keys --------------------------------- |