On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Andy Zhou wrote:
> Do we still need a spinlock when we have per-cpu counters?
>
Yes, cmd OVS_FLOW_ATTR_CLEAR needs clear stats. So lock is required
for atomic reset.
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
>>
>> With mega flow implementation
Do we still need a spinlock when we have per-cpu counters?
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
> With mega flow implementation ovs flow can be shared between
> multiple CPUs which makes stats updates highly contended
> operation. Following patch allocates separate stats for
