Yes, ovs-vswitchd tells the kernel module what to do.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 09:40:28PM -0700, Aishwarya wrote: > Ok. So what happens with other packets that belong to this same flow? Do > they get routed without the help of vswitchd then? If yes, how does this > happen? > > Thanks, > Aish > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 09:36:30PM -0700, Aishwarya wrote: > > > Thanks for your detailed reply. Does this mean that every time a packet > > > arrives, it is first sent to the user process vswitchd and then sent back > > > into the kernel for forwarding, which means there will be a > > kernel-to-user > > > space and back to kernel space context switch for every packet that > > arrives? > > > > No. There is one such transition for each new flow. > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
