Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 (Nithin Raju)

2014-08-26 Thread Samuel Ghinet
Thanks Ben! From: Ben Pfaff [b...@nicira.com] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 7:59 PM To: Samuel Ghinet Cc: dev@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 (Nithin Raju) On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:27:01PM +, Samuel Ghinet wrote

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 (Nithin Raju)

2014-08-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:27:01PM +, Samuel Ghinet wrote: > [QUOTE] > OVS 1.9.3 needed a trip to userspace for every new microflow. But OVS > 1.11 introduced megaflows, so that in many cases that is no longer > necessary. > [/QUOTE] > Yeah, the microflow is the kernel flow I was trying to say

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 (Nithin Raju)

2014-08-22 Thread Samuel Ghinet
am From: Ben Pfaff [b...@nicira.com] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 6:37 PM To: Samuel Ghinet Cc: dev@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 (Nithin Raju) On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 03:24:47PM +, Samuel Ghinet wrote: > Wh

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 (Nithin Raju)

2014-08-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 03:24:47PM +, Samuel Ghinet wrote: > What I was testing against was ovs 1.9.3 and ovs 1.11 OVS 1.9.3 needed a trip to userspace for every new microflow. But OVS 1.11 introduced megaflows, so that in many cases that is no longer necessary. > The fact is that, even for

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 (Nithin Raju)

2014-08-22 Thread Samuel Ghinet
dev@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 (Nithin Raju) On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 01:55:13AM +, Samuel Ghinet wrote: > port NORMAL and port FLOOD, unlike physical (i.e. ports corresponding to > specific VMs or to external) or logical (GRE / VXLAN / etc.) are a

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 (Nithin Raju)

2014-08-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 01:55:13AM +, Samuel Ghinet wrote: > port NORMAL and port FLOOD, unlike physical (i.e. ports corresponding to > specific VMs or to external) or logical (GRE / VXLAN / etc.) are a userspace > concept only. > This means that, when a "ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 actions=normal

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 (Nithin Raju)

2014-08-21 Thread Samuel Ghinet
If, by any chance, some of these details I mentioned on how flows are generated are wrong, corrections are welcomed :) I hope it clarified. Sam From: Ben Pfaff [b...@nicira.com] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:10 PM To: Samuel Ghinet Cc: dev@openvswitch.

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 (Nithin Raju)

2014-08-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 03:08:59PM +, Samuel Ghinet wrote: > I wanted to point out something about: > "At a high level, the fraction of packets that make it to userspace should be > very small. So it is not worth the optimization" > > If we have the port NORMAl (and perhaps, FLOOD) set, then

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 (Nithin Raju)

2014-08-21 Thread Samuel Ghinet
; Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 Message-ID: <34ae845b-bf0f-4a2f-a542-092973e58...@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" hi, I just wanted to send out the meeting minutes for any future reference: Attendees: Alin Serdean, Samuel Ghinet, A

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13

2014-08-14 Thread Nithin Raju
e following topics: > > Thanks, > Alin. > > -Mesaj original- > De la: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@openvswitch.org] În numele Nithin Raju > Trimis: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 6:29 PM > Către: dev@openvswitch.org > Subiect: Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/1

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13

2014-08-13 Thread Alin Serdean
. Reference counting Thanks, Alin. -Mesaj original- De la: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@openvswitch.org] În numele Nithin Raju Trimis: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 6:29 PM Către: dev@openvswitch.org Subiect: Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13 Sam/Alin, I saw a bunch of reviews go out this

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13

2014-08-13 Thread Nithin Raju
Sam/Alin, I saw a bunch of reviews go out this morning. This is great! Ben was mentioning that as much as possible, we should keep review comments on ovs-dev ML. We can certainly discuss stuff about reviews that are better discussed in an interactive medium, but otherwise, I plan to give out com

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13

2014-08-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:34:43PM +, Nithin Raju wrote: > On Aug 11, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Ben Pfaff > wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 04:19:41PM +, Nithin Raju wrote: > >> 5. Samuel's reviews: > >> * I'll let Sam and Alin fill this in. > > > > I hope that code reviews will be main

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13

2014-08-11 Thread Nithin Raju
On Aug 11, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 04:19:41PM +, Nithin Raju wrote: >> 5. Samuel's reviews: >> * I'll let Sam and Alin fill this in. > > I hope that code reviews will be mainly on the mailing list. That's > much easier to track. By my count, patches

Re: [ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13

2014-08-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 04:19:41PM +, Nithin Raju wrote: > 5. Samuel's reviews: >* I'll let Sam and Alin fill this in. I hope that code reviews will be mainly on the mailing list. That's much easier to track. By my count, patches 7 through 13, plus patch 15, of Samuel's 15-patch series h

[ovs-dev] Agenda for IRC neeting for 8/13

2014-08-11 Thread Nithin Raju
hi folks, Here are the items to discuss. Pls. feel free to fill in more items. 1. Netlink implementation discussion - design discussions, status. 2. Discussion about the persistent ports patch that Cloudbase is tasked with. 3. Discussion about P0 issues. 4. Discussion of other issues. 5. Samuel's