Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC 00/14] Revalidate flows with unique identifiers.

2014-08-22 Thread Joe Stringer
Hi Jarno, There's been a few iterations. The previous 64-bit version was using a 32-bit hash combined with a thread ID. The 128-bit hash was based on a suggestion to have sufficient bits to randomly generate the identifiers, however I've since shifted to using the hash of the flow key---This allo

Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC 00/14] Revalidate flows with unique identifiers.

2014-08-21 Thread Jarno Rajahalme
Joe, What was the reason to go from 64-bit hash to 128-bit hash? Jarno > On Aug 20, 2014, at 10:41 PM, Joe Stringer wrote: > > One of the current bottlenecks for revalidation performance is the cost of > assembling flow keys, masks and actions in the (linux) datapath. This series > seeks to