On 15/07/2021 05:45, Pravin Shelar wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 2:53 AM Mark Gray wrote:
>>
>> The Open vSwitch kernel module uses the upcall mechanism to send
>> packets from kernel space to user space when it misses in the kernel
>> space flow table. The upcall sends packets via a Netlink
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 2:53 AM Mark Gray wrote:
>
> The Open vSwitch kernel module uses the upcall mechanism to send
> packets from kernel space to user space when it misses in the kernel
> space flow table. The upcall sends packets via a Netlink socket.
> Currently, a Netlink socket is created
Hi Joe,
Maybe you can take a look...
Thanks,
fbl
On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 11:40:12AM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
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> Hi Pravin,
>
> Any thoughts on this patch? We are closing OVS 2.16, so it would
> be nice to know if it looks okay or needs changes, specially
> changes related to the
Hi Pravin,
Any thoughts on this patch? We are closing OVS 2.16, so it would
be nice to know if it looks okay or needs changes, specially
changes related to the userspace interface.
Thanks,
fbl
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 05:53:49AM -0400, Mark Gray wrote:
> The Open vSwitch kernel module uses the
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 05:53:49AM -0400, Mark Gray wrote:
> The Open vSwitch kernel module uses the upcall mechanism to send
> packets from kernel space to user space when it misses in the kernel
> space flow table. The upcall sends packets via a Netlink socket.
> Currently, a Netlink socket is
Hi Mark,
Thanks for addressing the comments. The patch looks good to me
and I plan to test it tomorrow.
fbl
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 05:53:49AM -0400, Mark Gray wrote:
> The Open vSwitch kernel module uses the upcall mechanism to send
> packets from kernel space to user space when it misses in
Hi Mark,
Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:
[auto build test WARNING on net-next/master]
url:
https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Mark-Gray/openvswitch-Introduce-per-cpu-upcall-dispatch/20210630-175435
base:
The Open vSwitch kernel module uses the upcall mechanism to send
packets from kernel space to user space when it misses in the kernel
space flow table. The upcall sends packets via a Netlink socket.
Currently, a Netlink socket is created for every vport. In this way,
there is a 1:1 mapping between
