It is a rate limit. That was a misunderstanding on my part. Go ahead and call it one.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:40:46AM -0700, Alex Wang wrote: > Do you think it is better to not call it a 'rate-limit' logic? > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 03:18:11PM -0700, Alex Wang wrote: > > > When ovs is running with large topology (e.g. large number of > > > interfaces), the stats update to ovsdb becomes huge and normally > > > requires multiple run of ovsdb jsonrpc message processing loop to > > > consume. > > > > > > To prevent the periodic stats update from backlogging in the > > > jsonrpc sending queue, this commit adds rate limiting logic to > > > it which only allows new update if the previous one is done. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com> > > > > Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
