[ovs-dev] [RFC 2/2] datapath: Cache netlink flow key, mask on flow_put.

[Flavio Leitner]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:27:09AM +1200, Joe Stringer wrote:
> On 11 July 2014 04:53, Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Can we push the cache construction to later that it doesn't impact
> > either flow setup or flow dump? I.e. like a workqueue? I don't know
> > if we have such facility.
> 
> 
> I'm open to the idea, but completely unfamiliar with how these work. I can
> take a look into this as well.

Workqueue is a kernel's facility to defer the work. You can indicate how
much time from now it should execute it and the work to be done, similar
to timers.

The idea was to schedule the cache construction in some way that it
doesn't happen during flow setup or flow dump.

fbl