On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 03:58:33PM -0700, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
>> The neighbor entry expiry is only checked in dpif-poll
>> event handler, But in absence of any event we could keep
>> using arp entry forever. This patch changes it to check
>> expiration on each lookup.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@ovn.org>
>
> I guess an alternative would be to introduce a "wait" function to make
> sure that expiration happens more expeditiously, but this seems fine
> too.
>
> The locking in this module seems a little heavy-handed given that we're
> using a cmap.
>
I am not sure if arp lookup locking is a bottleneck at this point but
I am planing on benchmarking tunnel performance. it can be addressed
then.

> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>

Thanks. I pushed it to master.
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