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

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Date:   Wed, 06 Nov 2019 21:25:48 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com
Cc:     ee07b291@...il.com, pshelar@....org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        dev@...nvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: openvswitch: select vport upcall
 portid directly

From: xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com
Date: Thu,  7 Nov 2019 00:34:28 +0800

> 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>
> ---
> v2: drectly -> directly in the commit title

Applied.