On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 03:50:22PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote: > > Currently, I think, we push stats at least once a second. This > > reduces that to at least once every two seconds, I think. Does > > pushing once a second reduce performance? > > It basically wipes out the benefit entirely. If you feel that this > approach is risky, I'd prefer to skip the patch entirely. We'll need > something like this in some unrelated series I'm working on. Perhaps > it can go in then. After all this is just a temporary measure until > the *correct* way to solve the problem appears. I.E. separate flow > miss handling into it's own thread so these real time concerns stop > being an issue. Thoughts?
You pointed out in person that this doesn't actually make the stats update slower for flow-stats requests, since they get refreshed on-demand. So I think 2 seconds is fine. Thanks, Ben. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
