On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Thomas Graf <tg...@suug.ch> wrote: > On 06/11/14 at 11:23am, Jesse Gross wrote: >> These two pieces are actually related. >> >> All of the operations during flow lookup (flow extraction, masking, >> hashing, and comparison) are now variable length to the relevant data. >> For non-Geneve packets, the option field won't be part of the >> significant portion of the flow and the memory should be totally >> untouched. The reason for putting the options at the end of the array >> is so that even Geneve packets can take advantage of this optimization >> if less than the maximum size of options are used. >> >> I actually did look into breaking the flow key up but the result was >> messy and arguably worse since it means that the optimizations that we >> already have might not just work. > > Thanks for this excellent explanation.
Thanks for looking it over. I added a comment to at least explain the options array. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
