Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v5 1/2] dpif-netdev: Add SMC cache after EMC cache

2018-07-11 Thread Stokes, Ian
> Acked-by: Billy O'Mahony > Thanks to all for the work on this. I've applied this to dpdk_merge branch, it will be part of this week's pull request. I rolled patch 2 of the series into the same commit as I don't think it makes sense to have a broken unit test for the 1st commit. Thanks Ian

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v5 1/2] dpif-netdev: Add SMC cache after EMC cache

2018-07-11 Thread O Mahony, Billy
Acked-by: Billy O'Mahony > -Original Message- > From: Wang, Yipeng1 > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 11:14 AM > To: d...@openvswitch.org; jan.scheur...@ericsson.com; O Mahony, Billy > > Cc: Wang, Yipeng1 ; Stokes, Ian > ; b...@ovn.org > Subject: [PATCH v5 1/2] dpif-netdev: Add SMC cache

[ovs-dev] [PATCH v5 1/2] dpif-netdev: Add SMC cache after EMC cache

2018-07-10 Thread Yipeng Wang
This patch adds a signature match cache (SMC) after exact match cache (EMC). The difference between SMC and EMC is SMC only stores a signature of a flow thus it is much more memory efficient. With same memory space, EMC can store 8k flows while SMC can store 1M flows. It is generally beneficial to