[ovs-dev] Integration of Open vSwitch

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:01:55AM -0500, jamal wrote:
>
> Ah yes, them locks. Unless you start doing per-cpu tables
> with lazy synchronization i am not sure how to avoid that.
> Note: last time (time flies) i compared against iptables, the tc flow
> setup/teardown was pretty consistent regardless of table size
> relatively speaking.

iptables sets a pretty low bar :)

For a flow cache I think going per-cpu or at least per-node will
be unavoidable.

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