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

Ethan Jackson ethan at nicira.com
Thu Dec 19 21:23:10 UTC 2013


Thanks I'll merge in a second.

Ethan

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 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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