On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 01:36:44PM -0700, Pravin Shelar wrote: > Sorry for jumping in a bit late. I have couple of high level comments below. > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Rony Efraim <ro...@mellanox.com> wrote: > > From: Joe Stringer [mailto:j...@ovn.org] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 > > 5:06 AM
... > >> Other considerations > >> * Is tc flower filter setup rate and stats dump fast enough? How does it > >> compare to existing kernel datapath flow setup rate? Multiple threads > >> inserting > >> at once? How many filters can be dumped per second? > >> etc. > > [RONY] we will test it, and will try to improve the TC if it will be needed > > > I think there are two part in flow offloading. > 1. Time spent to Add the flow to TC. > 2. Time spent on pushing the flow to hardware. > > It would be interesting to know which one is dominant in this case. I agree that the problem should be quantified but I expect the answer will depend on the hardware in use. And I entirely expect there are worthwhile gains to be had on the software side. ... _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
