[ovs-dev] Doubt regarding packet registers
Faseela K
faseela.k at ericsson.com
Fri Jun 10 06:05:27 UTC 2016
Thanks Ben!
The last question is not valid if the answer to first question is Yes.
Thanks,
Faseela
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp at ovn.org]
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 8:55 AM
To: Faseela K
Cc: ovs dev
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Doubt regarding packet registers
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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