On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 02:27:25PM -0800, Justin Pettit wrote: > Controller actions have become more commonly used for purposes other > than just making forwarding decisions (e.g., packet logging). A packet > that needs to be copied to the controller and forwarded would always be > sent to ovs-vswitchd to be handled, which could negatively affect > performance and cause heavier CPU utilization in ovs-vswitchd. > > This commit changes the behavior so that OpenFlow controller actions > become userspace datapath actions while continuing to let packet > forwarding and manipulation continue to be handled by the datapath > directly. > > This patch still slow-paths controller actions with the "pause" flag > set. A future patch will stop slow-pathing these pause actions as > well. > > Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <[email protected]> > --- > v1->v2: Changes suggested by Ben.
Looking at the updates in v2: Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
