netdev - Re: [GIT net-next] Open vSwitch

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Date:	Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:11:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse@...ira.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [GIT net-next] Open vSwitch

From: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:20:37 -0700

> A number of significant new features and optimizations for net-next/3.12.
> Highlights are:
>  * "Megaflows", an optimization that allows userspace to specify which
>    flow fields were used to compute the results of the flow lookup.
>    This allows for a major reduction in flow setups (the major
>    performance bottleneck in Open vSwitch) without reducing flexibility.
>  * Converting netlink dump operations to use RCU, allowing for
>    additional parallelism in userspace.
>  * Matching and modifying SCTP protocol fields.

Pulled, thanks Jesse.
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