[ovs-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Hash only the valid part of the flow key.

[Andrew Evans]

This patch series aims to improve datapath performance by reducing the amount
of flow key data hashed for each packet. The idea was Jesse's -- any bugs are
my own.

I've tested this on IPv4 and IPv6 flows with a WARN_ONCE() that caught some
cases of nonzero data past the presumed end of the flow key.

Andrew Evans (2):
  datapath: Rearrange struct sw_flow_key to put optional information
    last.
  datapath: Hash only the part of struct sw_flow_key populated by
    flow_extract().

 datapath/datapath.c |   25 ++++--
 datapath/flow.c     |  233 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 datapath/flow.h     |   67 ++++++++++-----
 datapath/tunnel.c   |    7 +-
 4 files changed, 215 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-)

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