On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 01:35:04PM -0700, Alex Wang wrote: > This commit implements the API functions to allow multiple handler > threads read upcall. > > Also, this commit removes the handling priority of DPIF_UC_MISS > over DPIF_UC_ACTION. So, both misses will be put to the same > queue. The decision is based on the fact that a lot has changed > since the age when flow setup rate is most treasured and starving > all actions in the presence of any flow misses doesn't seem like > a sound balancing solution. > > Thusly the current implementation will be put in testing and > investigation for better balancing solution will continue if > there is an issue. > > Also note, the introduction and use of flow_hash_5tuple() will > put missed ICMP packets from same source but with different > type/code to different handler queues. This may cause reordering > of these packets. For now, we do not count this as a problem. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com>
Alex, Pravin is also changing dpif-netdev, to add DPDK support. Please coordinate with him to figure out who should make changes first and to make sure that your changes don't conflict with each other. Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
