On 10/21/21 00:32, Mike Pattrick wrote:
> Currently when a user creates an openflow group with with multiple
> buckets without specifying a selection type, the efficient dp_hash is
> only selected if the user is creating fewer than 64 buckets. But when
> dp_hash is explicitly selected, up to 256 buckets are supported.
> 
> While up to 64 buckets seems like a lot, certain OVN/Open Stack
> workloads could result in the user creating more than 64 buckets. For
> example, when using OVN to load balance. This patch increases the
> default maximum from 64 to 256.
> 
> This change to the default limit doesn't affect how many buckets are
> actually created, that is specified by the user when the group is
> created, just how traffic is distributed across buckets.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Pattrick <[email protected]>
> ---

Hey, Mike.  Thanks for the patch!

This looks like a user-visible change, so could you, please, add a
couple of lines of a high-level description to the NEWS file for it?

Bets regards, Ilya Maximets.
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