Signed-off-by: Luis E. P <lp...@vmware.com> --- AUTHORS | 1 + datapath/README.md | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS index 845d20c..b82d5ed 100644 --- a/AUTHORS +++ b/AUTHORS @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ Lorand Jakab loja...@cisco.com Luca Giraudo lgira...@nicira.com Lucian Petrut lpet...@cloudbasesolutions.com Luigi Rizzo ri...@iet.unipi.it +Luis E. P. l...@hotmail.com Madhu Challa cha...@noironetworks.com Mark D. Gray mark.d.g...@intel.com Mark Hamilton mhamil...@nicira.com diff --git a/datapath/README.md b/datapath/README.md index 1a4d8e1..8faecc0 100644 --- a/datapath/README.md +++ b/datapath/README.md @@ -99,10 +99,11 @@ passed over the Netlink socket. A flow key, exactly as described above, and an optional corresponding flow mask. A wildcarded flow can represent a group of exact match flows. Each '1' bit -in the mask specifies a exact match with the corresponding bit in the flow key. +in the mask specifies an exact match with the corresponding bit in the flow key. A '0' bit specifies a don't care bit, which will match either a '1' or '0' bit -of a incoming packet. Using wildcarded flow can improve the flow set up rate -by reduce the number of new flows need to be processed by the user space program. +of an incoming packet. Using a wildcarded flow can improve the flow set up rate +by reducing the number of new flows that need to be processed by the user space +program. Support for the mask Netlink attribute is optional for both the kernel and user space program. The kernel can ignore the mask attribute, installing an exact -- 2.3.2 (Apple Git-55) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
