Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS megaflows

2017-08-15 Thread Joe Stringer
On the first point - it's a little more subtle than that. A traffic flow (eg, a connection) must arrive at OVS, the first packet is sent through userspace, which causes userspace to install a megaflow into the datapath. Subsequently, if any traffic which matches that megaflow arrives, it will

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS megaflows

2017-08-15 Thread Sara Gittlin
Can i summarize: 1. Once N microflows are installed in the kernel cache: we can install a megaflow/s in kernel datapath, if it possible to generate a megaflow/s for them 2. These megaflow/s remain in the kernel megaflow cache as long as the associated flows are in userspace openflow tables,