Re: [ovs-dev] [monitor2 v2 4/9] lib: add diff and apply diff APIs for ovsdb_datum

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 02:16:01PM -0800, Andy Zhou wrote: > From: Andy Zhou > > When an OVSDB column change its value, it is more efficient to only > send what has changed, rather than sending the entire new copy. > This is analogous to software programmer send patches rather than > the entire s

[ovs-dev] [monitor2 v2 4/9] lib: add diff and apply diff APIs for ovsdb_datum

From: Andy Zhou When an OVSDB column change its value, it is more efficient to only send what has changed, rather than sending the entire new copy. This is analogous to software programmer send patches rather than the entire source file. For columns store a single element, the "diff" datum is th