Thanks! That's no trouble, I'll keep an eye on the progress of this and repost if/when necessary.
On 23 January 2014 11:42, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:29:23AM -0800, Joe Stringer wrote: > > Currently, we have a single thread (the 'flow_dumper') that fetches the > flows > > from the datapath and distributes them to revalidator threads. To clean > up the > > code (and provide a small performance benefit), we are looking at > removing this > > flow_dumper thread, and have each revalidator fetch flows from the > datapath > > instead. > > I applied a couple of these patches that make sense to me whether we > use multithreaded dumping or not. But it sounds like the intended > user for these patches (to eliminate the revalidation flow dumper > thread) hasn't shown a performance improvement yet, so until we do > that I'd prefer to defer final review on the others, because these > patches do make the code a little harder to understand. > > Thanks, > > Ben. >
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