[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] dpif-netdev: removed hmap flow_table

[Pravin Shelar]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Daniele Di Proietto
<ddiproietto at vmware.com> wrote:
> These patches remove struct hmap flow_table from dp_netdev.
> A new function has been added to the classifier interface (classifier_at_position). Given the complexity added by this call, which has to expose part of the classifier interface, I’m not sure anymore this change is worth merging, but I’ll leave this decision to you guys.
>

Two hash tables for single flow table is not nice, we have to get rid
of extra table. If you want you can hide classifier complexity by
moving position variables in new struct, something like struct
classifier_position.