netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: openvswitch: select vport upcall portid directly

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Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 19:01:25 -0800
From:   Pravin Shelar <pshelar@....org>
To:     Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
Cc:     ee07b291@...il.com,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        ovs dev <dev@...nvswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: openvswitch: select vport upcall portid directly

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 8:34 AM <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
>
> The commit 69c51582ff786 ("dpif-netlink: don't allocate per
> thread netlink sockets"), in Open vSwitch ovs-vswitchd, has
> changed the number of allocated sockets to just one per port
> by moving the socket array from a per handler structure to
> a per datapath one. In the kernel datapath, a vport will have
> only one socket in most case, if so select it directly in
> fast-path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>

Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>

Thanks.