[ovs-dev] Question about SHA1 usage in OVSDB Server

[Rodriguez Betancourt, Esteban]

Hello,
I was performing some profiling on OVSDB, when inserting a lot of rows. The callgrind
results shows that the SHA1 calculation takes near 10% of the time within our test
(the whole file writing, including SHA1, takes like 20%).

We want to know further about why that checksum is need, in order to decide how
it could be optimized (we are considering: using processor specific instructions, changing
the algorithm or removing it at all).

By the way, I would want to know if there are any updates on the review of the IDL Compound
Indexes (pull request #127).

Thanks,
Esteban