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Hi, Back in October I reported that I noticed a problem whereby flow control breaks down when openvswitch is configured to mirror a port[1]. I have (finally) looked into this further and the problem appears to relate to cloning of skbs, as Jesse Gross originally suspected. More specifically, in do_execute_actions[2] the first n-1 times that an skb needs to be transmitted it is cloned first and the final time the original skb is used. In the case that there is only one action, which is the normal case, then the original skb will be used. But in the case of mirroring the cloning comes into effect. And in my...

Hi, Back in October I reported that I noticed a problem whereby flow control breaks down when openvswitch is configured to mirror a port[1]. I have (finally) looked into this further and the problem appears to relate to cloning of skbs, as Jesse Gross originally suspected. More specifically, in do_execute_actions[2] the first n-1 times that an skb needs to be transmitted it is cloned first and the final time the original skb is used. In the case that there is only one action, which is the normal case, then the original skb will be used. But in the case of mirroring the cloning comes into effect. And in my...