Re: [ovs-dev] Scaling the flow table

2015-05-13 Thread Guillermo Ontañón
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Jesse Gross wrote: > This is basically an internal kernel optimization, so I agree with Ben > that I would prefer not making userspace aware of this. I don't really > think that changing the locking along the lines of what is described > above is actually more comp

Re: [ovs-dev] Scaling the flow table

2015-05-13 Thread Guillermo Ontañón
Hi Ben, On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:21:19AM +0200, Duarte Nunes wrote: >> We've observed that for high flow setup rates, the flow table becomes a >> bottleneck since it only allows a single writer (all CRUD flow operations >> take the ovs_mutex).

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] FAQ: Add table of supported Linux versions.

2012-12-05 Thread Guillermo Ontañón
sion. > + It should build against almost any kernel, certainly against 2.6.18 > + and later. > + > Q: What features are not available in the Open vSwitch kernel datapath > that ships as part of the upstream Linux kernel? > > -- > 1.7.2.5 > > ________