Re: [ovs-discuss] Datapath loop

2010-10-20 Thread Henrique Rodrigues
Hi Ben, On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:21:07PM -0200, Henrique Rodrigues wrote: > > I've been studying the Open vSwitch code and I couldn't understand what > the > > "datapath loop" means... > > I noticed the comment before the struct loop_counter

Re: [ovs-discuss] Datapath loop

2010-10-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:21:07PM -0200, Henrique Rodrigues wrote: > I've been studying the Open vSwitch code and I couldn't understand what the > "datapath loop" means... > I noticed the comment before the struct loop_counter declaration ("*We limit > the number of times that we pass into dp_proc

[ovs-discuss] Datapath loop

2010-10-20 Thread Henrique Rodrigues
Hi, I've been studying the Open vSwitch code and I couldn't understand what the "datapath loop" means... I noticed the comment before the struct loop_counter declaration ("*We limit the number of times that we pass into dp_process_received_packet() to avoid blowing out the stack in the event that