On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 06:45:11PM +0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Simon Horman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Expose the number of flows present in a datapath to user-space > > and to users via ovs-dpctl show. > > > > This has proved quite useful while looking at ways > > to increase the number of flows that can be handled. > > I am unsure if it is generally useful or not to > > warrant inclusion upstream. > > I think this is generally useful information. We actually used to > report it but it was eliminated during the transition to Netlink > because it was no longer strictly necessary (it was previously used to > size buffers) and because it was grouped together with some other > information that exposed too much in the way of implementation > details.
I've found it useful for debugging, myself, even though I was the one who suggested removing it. Since we removed it from "ovs-dpctl show" output I've had to approximate it with the (more expensive) "ovs-dpctl dump-flows <datapath> | wc". _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
