[ovs-dev] [PATCH 7/7] tunneling: Allow disabling tunnel header caching.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Sep 21 17:24:58 UTC 2010


On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:13:45AM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> Tunnel header caching significantly improves performance by bypassing
> much of the transmit path.  However, in some special cases or for
> debugging it may be desirable to traverse the entire IP stack.  This
> exposes that as an option (default is enabled).

The default is to enable header caching; to me, the commit message
implies that traversing the entire IP stack is enabled.

This looks good, thanks.




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