Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/3] use flow_table as indirect table

2018-03-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 11:23:28AM -0800, yipeng wang wrote: > From: Yipeng Wang > > It is not memory efficient to store pointers in the distributor. > In this commit, we store a 2 Byte index which is the index into > flow_table. If the flow table is larger than 2^16, the

[ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/3] use flow_table as indirect table

2018-03-06 Thread yipeng wang
From: Yipeng Wang It is not memory efficient to store pointers in the distributor. In this commit, we store a 2 Byte index which is the index into flow_table. If the flow table is larger than 2^16, the rules store in the high index entry will not be cached in distributor.