Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] dpif: Always generate RFC4122 UUIDs for UFID.

2015-06-09 Thread Joe Stringer
On 9 June 2015 at 15:12, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 01:57:59PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote: >> This patch sacrifices a few bits of hash quality from the 128-bit unique >> flow identifiers to make the UFIDs RFC4122-conformant as per the version 4 >> (random) UUID spec. Given that the

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] dpif: Always generate RFC4122 UUIDs for UFID.

2015-06-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 01:57:59PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote: > This patch sacrifices a few bits of hash quality from the 128-bit unique > flow identifiers to make the UFIDs RFC4122-conformant as per the version 4 > (random) UUID spec. Given that the 128-bit space is already quite large, > this sho