On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 01:10:49PM -0800, Joe Stringer wrote: > On 19 January 2017 at 15:26, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't understand the definitions of nesting level and ID. > > I had figured that it differs from the approach OVS implements (top > layer is a linear list of masks), to instead have a trie structure > with key+mask so you can work your way through the trie to determine > which hashtable the packet resides in. Rather than worst case N masks > to iterate to determine that the packet doesn't match anything, it's M > layers of the trie + 1.
I might need to get someone to draw me a picture. It seems I'm particularly dense on this point. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
