On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 03:54:24PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote: > > Another way to handle these upcalls might be to uniformly send every > > packet to a handler thread, and then handle all the kinds of upcalls > > in the handlers. Did you consider that solution? I don't know, > > off-hand, whether it is better. It might do less work in the > > dispatcher, allowing the dispatcher to pass packets to the handlers > > more quickly. > > I suppose so, but it's not totally clear which handler thread should > have the honor. I think this approach is simple, and either way it > doesn't matter once the dispatcher goes away.
You can't use exactly the same code to choose a handler as for other upcalls? It's not worth quibbling since you're planning to kill the dispatcher anyhow. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
