Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC net-next] openvswitch: Introduce per-cpu upcall dispatch

2021-06-30 Thread Mark Gray
On 19/05/2021 22:47, Pravin Shelar wrote: Thanks for the review and sorry for the delay. I will be more responsive to any further changes from this point on. > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 8:33 AM Mark Gray wrote: >> >> The Open vSwitch kernel module uses the upcall mechanism to send >> packets from

Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC net-next] openvswitch: Introduce per-cpu upcall dispatch

2021-06-30 Thread Mark Gray
On 28/05/2021 20:49, Flavio Leitner wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > I think this patch is going in the right direction but there > are some points that I think we should address. See below. > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 11:33:25AM -0400, Mark Gray wrote: >> The Open vSwitch kernel module uses the upcall m

Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC net-next] openvswitch: Introduce per-cpu upcall dispatch

2021-05-28 Thread Flavio Leitner
Hi Mark, I think this patch is going in the right direction but there are some points that I think we should address. See below. On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 11:33:25AM -0400, Mark Gray wrote: > The Open vSwitch kernel module uses the upcall mechanism to send > packets from kernel space to user spac

Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC net-next] openvswitch: Introduce per-cpu upcall dispatch

2021-05-19 Thread Pravin Shelar
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 8:33 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 f

[ovs-dev] [RFC net-next] openvswitch: Introduce per-cpu upcall dispatch

2021-04-30 Thread Mark Gray
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