[ovs-dev] [RFC v3] ipv6 tunneling: Fix for performance drop introduced by ipv6 tunnel support.

Jiri Benc jbenc at redhat.com
Mon Jan 11 17:34:12 UTC 2016


On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 14:59:01 +0000, Sugesh Chandran wrote:
> Adding a new field called protocol in flow tunnel structure to verify the validity
>  of tunnel metadata. This field avoids the need of resetting and validating the
>  entire ipv4/ipv6 tunnel destination address which caused a serious performance
>  drop.

The patch looks good to me. Haven't really reviewed it line by line but
haven't spotted any obvious problem and I think this is good way
forward.

Thanks a lot for doing this!

 Jiri

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Jiri Benc



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