[ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v6 01/10] net: openvswitch: add flow-mask cache for performance
Tonghao Zhang
xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com
Sat Nov 2 08:37:46 UTC 2019
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 7:40 AM William Tu <u9012063 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 7:25 AM <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>
> >
> > The idea of this optimization comes from a patch which
> > is committed in 2014, openvswitch community. The author
> > is Pravin B Shelar. In order to get high performance, I
> > implement it again. Later patches will use it.
> >
> > Pravin B Shelar, says:
> > | On every packet OVS needs to lookup flow-table with every
> > | mask until it finds a match. The packet flow-key is first
> > | masked with mask in the list and then the masked key is
> > | looked up in flow-table. Therefore number of masks can
> > | affect packet processing performance.
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/5604935e4e1cbc16611d2d97f50b717aa31e8ec5
> > Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>
> > Tested-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>
> > Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063 at gmail.com>
> > ---
>
> Do you consider change author of this patch to Pravin?
The commit message of patches explain who is the author, and the url
of patches is in commit message.
we should change the patches again (change the commit author)?
> Regards,
> William
>
> <snip>
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