[ovs-discuss] questions about recirculation

[Ben Pfaff]

Recirculation avoids a round-trip to userspace.

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:46:23PM +0800, hanxueluo wrote:
> could you explain for me about how the performance is improved? I can't quite understand. In my opinion, there will be one more flow lookup in datapath. thanks. On 2016-05-21 23:36 , Ben Pfaff Wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 02:48:12PM +0800, hanxueluo wrote: > why use recirculation action for TCP-mode bond? what's the benefits, > compared to the old implement? Performance is much better. > Is there any other situation using recirculation action? Recirculation is used for MPLS, for connection tracking, and other purposes.