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authorJoe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>2015-10-20 05:18:58 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-10-22 05:33:38 +0300
commit1d008a1df927846788b9dc02e770f65951f98ddc (patch)
treecc0c827a97ca90da7c84c0d476f3477650dc8f15 /include
parent9e384715e9e702704c6941c575f0e6b322132a3a (diff)
downloadlinux-1d008a1df927846788b9dc02e770f65951f98ddc.tar.xz
openvswitch: Clarify conntrack COMMIT behaviour
The presence of this attribute does not modify the ct_state for the current packet, only future packets. Make this more clear in the header definition. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
index 036f73bc54cd..e663627a8ef3 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
@@ -620,7 +620,8 @@ struct ovs_action_hash {
* enum ovs_ct_attr - Attributes for %OVS_ACTION_ATTR_CT action.
* @OVS_CT_ATTR_COMMIT: If present, commits the connection to the conntrack
* table. This allows future packets for the same connection to be identified
- * as 'established' or 'related'.
+ * as 'established' or 'related'. The flow key for the current packet will
+ * retain the pre-commit connection state.
* @OVS_CT_ATTR_ZONE: u16 connection tracking zone.
* @OVS_CT_ATTR_MARK: u32 value followed by u32 mask. For each bit set in the
* mask, the corresponding bit in the value is copied to the connection