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

Jarno Rajahalme jarno at ovn.org
Mon Sep 12 23:25:13 UTC 2016


I added a NEWS flash as well,

  Jarno

> On Sep 12, 2016, at 3:53 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> Apparently ;-)
> 
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 02:59:16PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>> 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.
>> 




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