netdev - Re: Integration of Open vSwitch

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Date:	Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:01:55 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	dev@...nvswitch.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Integration of Open vSwitch

On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 21:40 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:

> I actually meant the scalability with adding/deleting flows,
> or in the case with qdiscs, filters.

Ah yes, them locks. Unless you start doing per-cpu tables
with lazy synchronization i am not sure how to avoid that.
Note: last time (time flies) i compared against iptables, the tc flow
setup/teardown was pretty consistent regardless of table size
relatively speaking.

cheers,
jamal

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