On 1/17/23 10:25, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17 Jan 2023, at 4:01, Han Zhou wrote:
> 
>> Today the minimum value for this setting is 1. This patch allows it to
>> be 0, meaning not checking pps at all, and always do revalidation.
>>
>> This is particularly useful for environments where some of the
>> applications with long-lived connections may have very low traffic for
>> certain period but have high rate of burst periodically. It is desirable
>> to keep the datapath flows instead of periodically deleting them to
>> avoid burst of packet miss to userspace.
>>
>> When setting to 0, there may be more datapath flows to be revalidated,
>> resulting in higher CPU cost of revalidator threads. This is the
>> downside but in certain cases this is still more desirable than packet
>> misses to user space.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Han Zhou <[email protected]>
> 
> Thanks for addressing the documentation Han!
> 
> Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>

Thanks, Han and Eelco!  Applied to master.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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