If it takes 60 seconds to sort 10,000 items, you're doing it wrong. Flow tables can handle millions of rules.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 08:40:42PM +0200, Amrane Ait Zeouay wrote: > I wrote it but it took a lot of time if i have 10000 rules, it took 60 s > for 500 packets, so that's why i wanted to know if there is a way to sorted > them without using a lot of memory, and what's the maximum of rules that > can flow table handles ? > Thank you > > 2016-05-19 16:46 GMT+02:00 Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>: > > > Then you'll have to write code to sort the subtables and then merge > > them. > > > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 04:36:04PM +0200, Amrane Ait Zeouay wrote: > > > Thank you for your answer Mr Pfaff, but i wanted to sort it in the > > > classifier.c or ofproto-dpif.c before doing the ovs will apply the > > action. > > > Thank you > > > On 19 May 2016 16:34, "Ben Pfaff" <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 03:04:12PM +0200, Amrane Ait Zeouay wrote: > > > > > I want to sort all rules in order descending, because i looked at the > > > > flow > > > > > table and i found that each flow table has a number of subtable and > > the > > > > > rules are not sorted in the flow table just in each subtable, so can > > you > > > > > tell me how can i list all rules in a sorted way (i'm using ovs > > 2.3.1). > > > > > > > > ovs-ofctl --sort=<field> dump-flows <bridge> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Amrane Ait Zeouay > > Engineer Student in The Development of Software and Systems > > University of Western Brittany > > Tel: +33 7 62 25 56 03 <+33+7+62+25+56+03> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
