On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 07:50:16PM -0800, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> This commit moves responsibility for implementing patch ports from
> the datapath to ofproto-dpif.  There are two main reasons to do
> this.
> 
> The first is a matter of design:  ofproto-dpif both has more
> information than the datapath, and is better suited to handle the
> complexity required to implement patch ports.
> 
> The second is performance.  My setup is a virtual machine with two
> basic learning bridges connected by patch ports.  I used
> ovs-benchmark to ping the virtual router IP residing outside the
> VM.  Over a 60 second run, "ovs-benchmark rate" improves from
> 14618.1 to 19311.9 transactions per second, or a 32% improvement.
> Similarly, "ovs-benchmark latency" improves from 6ms to 4ms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <et...@nicira.com>

I get lots of rejects against current master, would you mind rebasing
and reposting?
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