On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:01:24PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote: > On Jun 11, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 01:20:32AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote: > >> Dynamically determines the flow fields that were relevant in > >> processing flows based on the OpenFlow flow table and switch > >> configuration. The immediate use for this functionality is to > >> cache action translations for similar flows in facets. This yields > >> a roughly 80% improvement in flow set up rates for a complicated > >> flow table. > >> > >> More importantly, these wildcards will be used to determine what to > >> wildcard for the forthcoming kernel wildcard (megaflow) patches > >> that will allow wildcarding in the kernel, which will provide > >> significant flow set up improvements. > >> > >> The approach to tracking fields and caching action translations in > >> facets was based on an impressive prototype by Ethan Jackson. > >> > >> Co-authored-by: Ethan Jackson <et...@nicira.com> > >> Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <et...@nicira.com> > >> Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com>
... > An incremental follows. This seems reasonable. Thanks, Ben. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
