On Dec 6, 2014, at 3:51 AM, Davide De Rubeis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, I have a question about the packets path in the OVS > architecture: why is always the first packet of a flow processed in user > space? Is not faster to process it directly in kernel mode like the others?
The flow processing can be very complicated and the logic for that is in userspace. You can find special cases that could be pushed directly into the kernel, but we've found flow tables that simple to be the exception. --Justin _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
