[ovs-dev] [ovs-discuss] [ACLv2 01/19] ofproto: Add ofproto_delete_flows_wildcarded function.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Fri Sep 4 21:14:24 UTC 2009



Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> writes:
>
>   
>> This functions deletes groups of flows if they match a particular
>> wildcard.  This is needed to efficiently clean out old flow entries
>> that were locally added.
>>     
>
> The code looks good, but I'm worried that this could get really
> expensive if there are very many ACLs.
>   

I'm now flushing the entire flow table before inserting any ACL's to 
help with performance.  As a result, this commit is no longer needed.




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