> 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.
this seems like a semantic change in cases where the order of requests matter, right? have you considered to make it optional? YAMAMOTO Takashi _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
