On Nov 6, 2014, at 9:36 AM, Pravin Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> wrote:
>> I think that all of the flows added to the tnl-ports classifier have >> the same wildcard pattern. I don't know why a classifier is the best >> choice; wouldn't an hmap work? >> The lookup should be RCU, so hmap would not work. cmap would though. > Yes, I can use simple hash table. But with classifier, I can directly > use classifier API which lookup ports using incoming packet flow and > generate wildcards. So it is cleaner. Do you think is is more > expensive to use classifier here compared to hmap or cmap? The lookup should not be any more expensive than a hand rolled cmap, so I think the benefit of using the existing lookup API is worth it. Jarno _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
