On Sep 11, 2014, at 11:20 PM, Pravin Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com> wrote: >> One example is when STP config pkts are received from the dpdk port, >> >> when processing the pkts in xlate's process_special(), if the stp state >> machine need to send a config immediately via the dpdk interface, the state >> machine will directly invoke the stp->send() callback function and sends the >> pkt immediately (via calling dpif_netdev_execute()). >> > > ok, I was hoping to get rid of per thread key, I guess we have to keep it. We could change the ofproto-level *_send_packet functions to queue the packets on the ofport and have the main thread service those queues on port_run. This way we would have no recursion back to dpif-netdev from upcall processing. Jarno _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
