From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [GIT net-next] Open vSwitch Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:11:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20130827.221158.172647721431017580.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1377634848-34327-1-git-send-email-jesse@nicira.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvswitch.org To: jesse@nicira.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:35993 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751884Ab3H1CL7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:11:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1377634848-34327-1-git-send-email-jesse@nicira.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jesse Gross Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:20:37 -0700 > A number of significant new features and optimizations for net-next/3.12. > Highlights are: > * "Megaflows", an optimization that allows userspace to specify which > flow fields were used to compute the results of the flow lookup. > This allows for a major reduction in flow setups (the major > performance bottleneck in Open vSwitch) without reducing flexibility. > * Converting netlink dump operations to use RCU, allowing for > additional parallelism in userspace. > * Matching and modifying SCTP protocol fields. Pulled, thanks Jesse.