From: Jesse Gross <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:34:57 -0800
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:19 PM, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Jesse Gross <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:11:33 -0800 >> >>> As you mention, one of the biggest benefits of Open vSwitch is how >>> simple the kernel portions are (it's less than 6000 lines). It's >>> existed as an out-of-tree project for several years now so it's >>> actually fairly mature already and unlikely that there will be a >>> sudden influx of new code over the coming months. >> >> The packet scheduler classification and packet action infrastructure >> has been around 5 times longer. > > The only point that I was trying to make with that comment is that > it's unlikely that Open vSwitch will suddenly get more complex due to > the introduction of new code. And it will get instantly less complex if it uses existing infrastructure. There is no reasonable argument against using what we have already. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
