netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/3] net: openvswitch: remove unnused keep

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Message-ID: <CAOrHB_C=Gx_Z=jpxWQfM20zcJnq2XZ9Kfx-oC-8_zDGrBc4Onw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:23:26 -0700
From:   Pravin Shelar <pravin.ovn@...il.com>
To:     Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        ovs dev <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/3] net: openvswitch: remove unnused keep_flows

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:08 PM <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
>
> keep_flows was introduced by [1], which used as flag to delete flows or not.
> When rehashing or expanding the table instance, we will not flush the flows.
> Now don't use it anymore, remove it.
>
> [1] - https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/acd051f1761569205827dc9b037e15568a8d59f8
> Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>
> Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>

This patch looks good. But its fixing memory leak, I guess the patch
that removed dependedcy on keep_flows is in net-next. so we are good.

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