On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]> wrote: > Use percpu allocator for stats due to objection to stats array. > But percpu allocator is not designed for high churn allocation/ > deallcation. so we need to avoid allocating percpu flow for > short lived flows. One cheaper way to detect flow is by checking > if 5-tuple used in RSS are masked or not. if any one of them is > masked, flow is likely shared across CPU where percpu stat > should be more scalable. And that flow should be relatively > long lived flow. > > Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
