On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:19:08PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: >> The addition of Geneve options to packet metadata significantly >> expanded its size. It was reported that this can decrease performance >> for DPDK ports by up to 25% since we need to initialize the whole >> structure on each packet receive. >> >> It is not really necessary to zero out the entire structure because >> miniflow_extract() only copies the tunnel metadata when particular >> fields indicate that it is valid. Therefore, as long as we zero out >> these fields when the metadata is initialized and ensure that the >> rest of the structure is correctly set in the presence of a tunnel, >> we can avoid touching the tunnel fields on packet reception. >> >> Reported-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.lof...@intel.com> >> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> > > Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
Thanks, applied to master. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
