On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:41:22PM +0100, Anoob Soman wrote: > There are few patches submitted for mega flows in last couple of > weeks. I have a vague idea on what mega flows could be. Is it > possible to share some more detail on how exactly we would be doing > the mega flow match in the kernel. Couple of months ago I did an > experiment with ovs, which tried to reduce the granularity of flows > in kernel in order to reduce the number of packets queued to > userspace (flows miss). In order to make this work I sent only layer > 2 flow information (src-mac, dst-mac, next-proto) from kernel space > to userspace. Thus only layer-2 based flows were created in kernel > space. This worked well for situation where there were large number > of short lived flows. Is mega flow similar to this ?
The megaflow idea is to allow flows with arbitrary wildcard sets in the kernel. You could use it to match on only layer-2 flow information. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
