Thank you Justin, i understand from the article, that generating megaflows and installing in the kernel cache is already implemented in userspace - ovs. Before reading this article, i thought that megaflows were implemented only for L2 normal mode. Sara
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:09 AM, Justin Pettit <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Aug 21, 2017, at 8:19 AM, Sara Gittlin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> One more - I did not see in the article that if a match is found in >> megaflow cache - then a microflow is generated to be installed in the >> microflow cache to improve performance for subsequnce packets > > An exact-match cache (microflow cache) is an implementation of the datapath. > The userspace and out-of-tree OVS Linux kernel module that ships as part of > OVS contain an exact-match cache that's managed by the datapath. The > upstream OVS kernel module that ships with the Linux kernel was rejected by > the Linux upstream community, so it does not contain one. > > --Justin > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
