Patent ID: 9654424
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. For a managed forwarding element (MFE) that processes packets by comparing packet header field values of the packets to flow entries arranged in a plurality of tables, a method comprising: for a particular packet, identifying a flow entry matched by the particular packet in a first table of the plurality of tables; when the matched flow entry in the first table belongs to one of a plurality of dimensions of a conjunctive set of flow entries, searching at least a second additional table for a flow entry matched by the particular packet that belongs to another of the plurality of dimensions of the conjunctive set of flow entries; and when flow entries from each of the plurality of dimensions are matched by the particular packet, performing an action specified by a particular additional flow entry referenced by the matched flow entries from the plurality of dimensions of the conjunctive set of flow entries.