> > I thought of creating one "dummy netdev" per function which will represent > each function in open vswitch. These ports can be treated like logical > connection to the functions. Whenever there is flow-miss in the device, it > will > punt the packet to the linux kernel via respective "dummy netdev" and get > the flow entry via control path.
Yeah, this would be a good approach, it would also need a send and receive function allow sending packets to the slow path. > > This idea is derived from Jiri's Sept'2014 email/patch. > > How are you planning to do this? Are you using linux-3.19.3 offload > functionality? I haven’t looked at this in detail yet. > > Thanks, > Mehul. > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
