On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:46:36AM -0700, Aishwarya wrote: > That was very helpful. Thanks! One of the slides say that the kernel module > has no flow expiration . I am guessing this means that as it gets to know > about more and more flows from vswitchd, these will always be there in the > kernel as long as it is loaded?
No. Userspace deletes flows that fall idle for some time. > Also, If I have lets say 7000 flows, and send some traffic for each flow, so > that the kernel module ultimately knows about all the flows. How fast is its > lookup now when it starts receiving packets, lets say of the oldest flow? Fast. It's a hash table. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
