Re: [PATCH net-next v13 5/5] openvswitch: Add support for unique flow IDs.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Joe Stringer [off-list ref] wrote:

On 21 January 2015 at 10:31, Pravin Shelar [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Joe Stringer [off-list ref] wrote:

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Previously, flows were manipulated by userspace specifying a full,
unmasked flow key. This adds significant burden onto flow
serialization/deserialization, particularly when dumping flows.

This patch adds an alternative way to refer to flows using a
variable-length "unique flow identifier" (UFID). At flow setup time,
userspace may specify a UFID for a flow, which is stored with the flow
and inserted into a separate table for lookup, in addition to the
standard flow table. Flows created using a UFID must be fetched or
deleted using the UFID.

All flow dump operations may now be made more terse with OVS_UFID_F_*
flags. For example, the OVS_UFID_F_OMIT_KEY flag allows responses to
omit the flow key from a datapath operation if the flow has a
corresponding UFID. This significantly reduces the time spent assembling
and transacting netlink messages. With all OVS_UFID_F_OMIT_* flags
enabled, the datapath only returns the UFID and statistics for each flow
during flow dump, increasing ovs-vswitchd revalidator performance by 40%
or more.

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <redacted>

Its almost ready. But I saw minor issues,
few checkpatch.pl failures.
in ovs_flow_cmd_new() we should use unmasked key to lookup in flow
table for legacy case.

Thanks for review, I can send out a fresh version soon. Should I
resend the whole series or is just a new version of this patch
sufficient?

I think you have to send entire series. Dave will not apply series
patches from different versions.