netdev - Re: Integration of Open vSwitch

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Date:	Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:08:08 -0800
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	jhs@...atatu.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 Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Herbert Xu
<herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> The other factor I considered is scalability.  The OVS code as is
> is not really friendly to SMP/NUMA scalability (but as Eric pointed,
> neither is the classifier/action layer).  However, if this were to
> become a problem in future I'm sure we could extend either the
> interface as is (e.g., deploying multiqueue netlink sockets), or
> migrate to something else.

I agree that adding new flows is a weakness of the OVS model
(obviously it was a trade off) that has some room to be improved.
But, as you say, that's more of a long-term project that I think can
be done incrementally over time.

> So I don't really have any objections to this going into the tree.

Great, thanks for reviewing.
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