[ovs-dev] [PATCH v4] ofproto-dpif-xlate: Implement RCU locking in ofproto-dpif-xlate.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Ryan Wilson 76511 <wryan at vmware.com> wrote:
> Per Alex's request, I ran a 10K internal port creation test (using batches
> of 500 ports at a time via ovs-vsctl) on my 8GB memory machine. Again RCU
> was slightly faster:
>
> master: real 3m28.301s
> with RCU: real 3m21.489s

OK, that's reassuring.  If O(n**2) behavior is going to show up, it's
going to be at higher scale, then, and so I won't worry about it for
now since scale always requires a little bit of extra work.