Please don't drop the mailing list.

OVS sends packets to the kernel module in batches but not necessarily
all 50 at once.

Why do you care?

On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 03:51:10PM +0800, 杨润垲 wrote:
> Thank you very much!
> 1.Ovs-vswitchd passes 1 packet to ovs kernel module and then ovs kernel 
> module processes it. When ovs kernel module finishes the process of a packet 
> and then ovs-vswitchd passes the next.
> 2.Ovs-vswitchd passes 50 packets to ovs kernel module and then ovs kernel 
> module starts to process them.
> Which one is right?
> Thank you!
> 
> > -----原始邮件-----
> > 发件人: "Ben Pfaff" <[email protected]>
> > 发送时间: 2017年5月5日 星期五
> > 收件人: "杨润垲" <[email protected]>
> > 抄送: [email protected]
> > 主题: Re: [ovs-discuss] How does ovs-vswitchd deliver the packets which are 
> > already handled to datapath?
> > 
> > On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 02:41:59PM +0800, 杨润垲 wrote:
> > > The ovs-vswitchd handles 50 packets once. When ovs-vswitchd finishes
> > > the process, let‘s suppose all the actions are OVS_ACTION_ATTR_OUTPUT,
> > > dose ovs-vswitchd pass the first packet back to the datapath and then
> > > send it to the TX DMA then the second, or by other way?I am sorry to
> > > trouble you, and thank you very much!
> > 
> > OVS passes the packets to the OVS kernel module, which passes them to
> > the kernel driver for the output port.
> 
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