On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > The other factor I considered is scalability. The OVS code as is > is not really friendly to SMP/NUMA scalability (but as Eric pointed, > neither is the classifier/action layer). However, if this were to > become a problem in future I'm sure we could extend either the > interface as is (e.g., deploying multiqueue netlink sockets), or > migrate to something else.
I agree that adding new flows is a weakness of the OVS model (obviously it was a trade off) that has some room to be improved. But, as you say, that's more of a long-term project that I think can be done incrementally over time. > So I don't really have any objections to this going into the tree. Great, thanks for reviewing. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
