On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 11:54:42AM -0800, Ansis Atteka wrote: > Until now "ovs-ofctl add-flows ..." command sent each OFPC_ADD > request one by one accompanied with a barrier request. This > meant that before ovs-ofctl could send next OFPC_ADD request > it had to wait for a barrier response that was sent together > with previous OFPC_ADD request. > > After this patch ovs-ofctl batches together all OFPC_ADD requests > and sends only a single barrier request for the last OFPC_ADD > request. As a result of this patch, ovs-ofctl was able to insert > 60K flows in 1 second instead of 7 seconds. This is especially > helpful when restarting ovs-vswitchd. > > One possible side effect of this patch is that ovs-ofctl > might ignore some error messages that resulted in failed > OFPC_ADD.
That's a really nice speedup! However I'm worried about ignoring error messages. Why not report all of the errors, instead of ignoring them? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
