Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCHv5 08/12] dpif: Add Unique flow identifiers.

2014-09-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 02:25:14PM +1200, Joe Stringer wrote: One of the limiting factors on the number of flows that can be supported in the datapath is the overhead of assembling flow dump messages in the datapath. This patch adds a new alternative to dumping the key, mask and actions from

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCHv5 08/12] dpif: Add Unique flow identifiers.

2014-09-17 Thread Joe Stringer
On 18 September 2014 11:13, Ben Pfaff b...@nicira.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 02:25:14PM +1200, Joe Stringer wrote: One of the limiting factors on the number of flows that can be supported in the datapath is the overhead of assembling flow dump messages in the datapath. This patch

[ovs-dev] [PATCHv5 08/12] dpif: Add Unique flow identifiers.

2014-09-14 Thread Joe Stringer
One of the limiting factors on the number of flows that can be supported in the datapath is the overhead of assembling flow dump messages in the datapath. This patch adds a new alternative to dumping the key, mask and actions from the datapath, which is a 128-bit unique identifier for the flow.