[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] dpif: Meter framework.

Pravin Shelar pshelar at nicira.com
Wed Aug 13 19:43:57 UTC 2014


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:37:45PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>> Add DPIF-level infrastructure for meters.  Allow meter_set to modify
>> the meter configuration (e.g. set the burst size if unspecified).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com>
>
> The dpif_meter_del() convention of using stats->n_bands for both input
> and output is one that I've found awkward in other contexts.  It's
> easy for a careless caller to forget to initialize stats->n_bands, for
> example.  I would consider passing in the maximum number of bands as a
> separate parameter, because that interface is harder for the caller to
> get wrong.
>
> Other than that I'm happy with this, as long as Jesse and Pravin are
> satisfied interfacewise.

For now this is targeted for DPDK metering support which is in
user-space datapath therefore we can change interface anytime we want.



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