[ovs-dev] Open vSwitch Design

[David Miller]

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:18:03 +0100

> Le jeudi 24 novembre 2011 à 21:20 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> 
>> The problem is that there are two flow classifiers, one in OpenVswitch
>> in the kernel, and the other in the user space flow manager. I think the
>> issue is that the two have different code.
> 
> We have kind of same duplication in kernel already :)
> 
> __skb_get_rxhash() and net/sched/cls_flow.c contain roughly the same
> logic...
> 
> Maybe its time to factorize the thing, eventually use it in a third
> component (Open vSwitch...)

Yes.