On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 7:40 AM William Tu <u9012...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 7:25 AM <xiangxia.m....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m....@gmail.com>
> >
> > The idea of this optimization comes from a patch which
> > is committed in 2014, openvswitch community. The author
> > is Pravin B Shelar. In order to get high performance, I
> > implement it again. Later patches will use it.
> >
> > Pravin B Shelar, says:
> > | On every packet OVS needs to lookup flow-table with every
> > | mask until it finds a match. The packet flow-key is first
> > | masked with mask in the list and then the masked key is
> > | looked up in flow-table. Therefore number of masks can
> > | affect packet processing performance.
> >
> > Link:
> > https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/5604935e4e1cbc16611d2d97f50b717aa31e8ec5
> > Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m....@gmail.com>
> > Tested-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8...@gmail.com>
> > Acked-by: William Tu <u9012...@gmail.com>
> > ---
>
> Do you consider change author of this patch to Pravin?
The commit message of patches explain who is the author, and the url
of patches is in commit message.
we should change the patches again (change the commit author)?
> Regards,
> William
>
> <snip>
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