ofproto: Implement asynchronous OFPT_FLOW_MOD commands.
Some switching hardware takes a very long time to update its forwarding
rules, up to hundreds of milliseconds. It is undesirable for Open
vSwitch to block waiting this long for individual OpenFlow flow table
modification commands to complete. This commit enables ofproto to queue
up any number of independent flow table operations with asynchronous
completion.
I tested earlier versions of this commit using the "ofproto/clog" and
"ofproto/unclog" commands that it implements in the software switch
implementation. I have not tested the current version very much at all.
CC: Casey Barker <crbarker@google.com>
CC: Rajiv Ramanathan <rajivr@google.com>
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