On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 7:24 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Tonghao Zhang <[email protected]>
>
> The idea of this optimization comes from a patch which
> is committed in 2014, openvswitch community. The author
> is Pravin B Shelar. In order to get high performance, I
> implement it again. Later patches will use it.
>
> Pravin B Shelar, says:
> | On every packet OVS needs to lookup flow-table with every
> | mask until it finds a match. The packet flow-key is first
> | masked with mask in the list and then the masked key is
> | looked up in flow-table. Therefore number of masks can
> | affect packet processing performance.
>
> Link:
> https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/5604935e4e1cbc16611d2d97f50b717aa31e8ec5
> Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Greg Rose <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: William Tu <[email protected]>
> ---
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]>
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