On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 03:22:32PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 02:20:13PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> >> Currently we publish several multicast groups for upcalls and let
> >> userspace sockets subscribe to them. ??The benefit of this is mostly
> >> that userspace is the one doing the subscription - the actual
> >> multicast capability is not currently used and probably wouldn't be
> >> even if we moved to a multiprocess model. ??Despite the convenience,
> >> multicast sockets have a number of disadvantages, primarily that
> >> we only have a limited number of them so there could be collisions.
> >> In addition, unicast sockets give additional flexibility to userspace
> >> by allowing every object to potentially have a different socket
> >> chosen by userspace for upcalls. ??Finally, any future optimizations
> >> for upcalls to reduce copying will likely not be compatible with
> >> multicast anyways so disallowing it potentially simplifies things.
> >>
> >> We also never unregistered the multicast groups registered for upcalls
> >> and leaked them on module unload. ??As a side effect, this solves that
> >> problem.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <[email protected]>
> >
> > This seems reasonable, thank you.
> >
> > The comments in datapath-protocol.h don't mention pid == 0 but maybe
> > they should.
> >
> > We could optionally skip segmenting GSO skbs, saving some CPU, in the
> > pid == 0 case.
> >
> > In dpif_linux_recv_set_mask(), I would rate-limit the new log messages.
> 
> These are all good points.  I made these changes plus avoiding
> querying the actions and also a bug fix where we didn't actually set
> the flow key.  Here's the incremental:

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
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