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From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] openvswitch: Queue upcalls to userspace in
 per-port round-robin order
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 15:39:23 +0200
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 15:31:11 +0200
Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com> wrote:

> I would instead try to address the concerns that you had about the
> original patch adding fairness in the kernel, rather than trying to
> make the issue appear less severe in ovs-vswitchd.

And, by the way, if we introduce a way to configure the possible
fairness algorithms via netlink, we can also rather easily allow
ovs-vswitchd to disable fairness on kernel side altogether, should it
be needed.

-- 
Stefano