[ovs-dev] [netlink v4 28/52] datapath: Drop flow information from odp_stats.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Sun Jan 16 12:19:41 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> Userspace used to use the n_flows information here to decide how much
> memory needed to be allocated to list flows, but that isn't necessary any
> longer now that listing flows uses an iterator abstraction.  The
> cur_capacity and max_capacity members are just curiosities and don't
> provide much information; if the implementation ever changes away from
> the current hash table implementation then they could become meaningless
> anyhow.
>
> But more than anything, these aren't really the kind of statistics that
> networking people usually care about.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>




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