On Dec 5, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Ethan Jackson <et...@nicira.com> wrote: > I'm working on a patch to disable wildcard calculation when we're > doing things like pushing stats and don't actually need to know what > the mask should be. I had a question for you about your staged match > patch on this. I notice that you disable the staged matching when > wildcards aren't passed in. My guess would be, that even if we don't > need the wildcards the staged matching would be slightly faster than > the old algorithm because on average we have to compute less hash. If > this is true (again not sure either way), should we change the code to > *always* do the staged lookup? >
We should test wether there is a performance advantage even when the wildcards are not needed, and depending on the results maybe change as you suggest. Jarno _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
