Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCHv6 12/14] dpif: Index flows using unique identifiers.

2014-09-29 Thread Joe Stringer
On 30 September 2014 10:15, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 09:28:16PM +1200, Joe Stringer wrote: > > This patch modifies the dpif interface to allow flows to be manipulated > > using a 128-bit identifier. This allows revalidator threads to perform > > datapath operations faster, as th

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCHv6 12/14] dpif: Index flows using unique identifiers.

2014-09-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 09:28:16PM +1200, Joe Stringer wrote: > This patch modifies the dpif interface to allow flows to be manipulated > using a 128-bit identifier. This allows revalidator threads to perform > datapath operations faster, as they do not need to serialise the entire > flow key for o

[ovs-dev] [PATCHv6 12/14] dpif: Index flows using unique identifiers.

2014-09-26 Thread Joe Stringer
This patch modifies the dpif interface to allow flows to be manipulated using a 128-bit identifier. This allows revalidator threads to perform datapath operations faster, as they do not need to serialise the entire flow key for operations like flow_get and flow_delete. In conjunction with a future