[ovs-dev] Doubt regarding packet registers
Ben Pfaff
blp at ovn.org
Fri Jun 10 03:24:33 UTC 2016
On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:38:46PM +0000, Faseela K wrote:
> I would like to know the difference in behavior between metadata field and packet register.
> Is register a per-packet entity like metadata field?
Yes.
> If there is an action to copy metadata value to a packet register,
> will there be any performance impact on the packet processing
> pipeline,
No.
> since each packet matching on this flow has to access the register
> sequentially?
I don't understand this part.
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