From: Tonghao Zhang
The full looking up on flow table traverses all mask array.
If mask-array is too large, the number of invalid flow-mask
increase, performance will be drop.
One bad case, for example: M means flow-mask is valid and NULL
of flow-mask means deleted.
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 5:54 AM wrote:
>
> From: Tonghao Zhang
>
> The full looking up on flow table traverses all mask array.
> If mask-array is too large, the number of invalid flow-mask
> increase, performance will be drop.
>
> One bad case, for example: M means flow-mask is valid and NULL
> o
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 7:27 AM William Tu wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 5:54 AM wrote:
> >
> > From: Tonghao Zhang
> >
> > The full looking up on flow table traverses all mask array.
> > If mask-array is too large, the number of invalid flow-mask
> > increase, performance will be drop.
> >
> > Hi Tonghao,
> >
> > Does this improve performance? After all, the original code simply
> > check whether the mask is NULL, then goto next mask.
> I tested the performance, but I disable the mask cache, and use the
> dpdk-pktgen to generate packets:
> The test ovs flow:
> ovs-dpctl add-dp system
