[ovs-dev] [RFC PATCH] xlate: Use dp_hash for select groups.

[Jarno Rajahalme]

I’m rebasing this now. Adding ovs-ofctl documentation should be sufficient, right?

  Jarno

> On Apr 22, 2016, at 8:27 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 05:42:53PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>> Add a new select group selection method "dp_hash", which uses minimal
>> number of bits from the datapath calculated packet hash to inform the
>> select group bucket selection.  This makes the datapath flows more
>> generic resulting in less upcalls to userspace, but adds recirculation
>> prior to group selection.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno at ovn.org>
> 
> How can we explain this to users?  I don't think it tries, yet--I don't
> see any documentation updates.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben.