On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 04:14:10PM +0100, Ilya Maximets wrote: > On 09.01.2020 08:36, xiangxia.m....@gmail.com wrote: > > From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m....@gmail.com> > > > > For installing more than MAX_FLOWS (65536) flows to netdev datapath. > > Add the ovs-appctl subcommand "dpif-netdev/pmd-set-max-flow" which > > can change the flow number which netdev datapath support. > > > > Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m....@gmail.com> > > Hi. > > I'm wondering why we need the flow limit on the datapath level at all? > > MAX_FLOWS constant was there from the introduction of dpif-netdev, > however, later new flow-limit mechanism was implemented that > controls number of datapath flows in a dynamic way on ofproto level. > > So, maybe we can just remove the limit and fully rely on ofproto > to decide what flow limit we need? There are no limitations for > flow table size in dpif-netdev beside the artificial one. > 'other_config:flow-limit' seems suitable to control this. > > Ben, what do you think?
Hmm, that's a good point. Tonghao, do you have a good reason to want to limit flows at this level? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
