[ovs-dev] [threaded reval 2/2] ofproto: Handle flow installation and eviction in upcall.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Dec 19 21:17:40 UTC 2013


On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:51:04PM -0800, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> This patch moves flow installation and eviction from ofproto-dpif and
> the main thread, into ofproto-dpif-upcall.  This performs
> significantly better (approximately 2x TCP_CRR improvement), and
> allows ovs-vswitchd to maintain significantly larger datapath flow
> tables.  On top of that, it significantly simplifies the code,
> retiring "struct facet" and friends.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>



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