[ovs-dev] [PATCH 07/10] classifier: Use array for subtables instead of a list.

[Ethan Jackson]

Sounds good.

Ethan

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 24, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Ethan Jackson <ethan at nicira.com> wrote:
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>> In the cache_push_back function, you might consider using the
>> x2nrealloc() function.
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> I did not know this existed, thanks!
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>> Does this actually help?  I've found we spend most of our time getting
>> the memory for the rule, not the subtable itself.
>>
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> After this series I see cache misses only on fetching the ‘next’ rule. Before, I saw also misses for the subtable (being fetched via a next pointer as well) and/or it’s mask. So this helps :-)
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>         Jarno
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