Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCHv5 06/12] upcall: Revalidate using cache of mask, actions.

2014-09-17 Thread Joe Stringer
On 18 September 2014 10:53, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 02:25:12PM +1200, Joe Stringer wrote: > > This allows us to ignore most fields of a flow_dump, requiring only the > > flow key for looking up the ukey. Fetching flows can also be avoided in > > the corner case where a flow is

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCHv5 06/12] upcall: Revalidate using cache of mask, actions.

2014-09-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 02:25:12PM +1200, Joe Stringer wrote: > This allows us to ignore most fields of a flow_dump, requiring only the > flow key for looking up the ukey. Fetching flows can also be avoided in > the corner case where a flow is missed from a dump but revalidation is > required. > >

[ovs-dev] [PATCHv5 06/12] upcall: Revalidate using cache of mask, actions.

2014-09-14 Thread Joe Stringer
This allows us to ignore most fields of a flow_dump, requiring only the flow key for looking up the ukey. Fetching flows can also be avoided in the corner case where a flow is missed from a dump but revalidation is required. A future patch will modify the datapath interface to make these cached fi