The idea of this optimization comes from a patch which
is committed in 2014, openvswitch community. The author
is Pravin B Shelar. In order to get high performance, I
implement it again. Later patches will use it.
Pravin B Shelar, says:
| On every packet OVS needs to lookup flow-table with every
| mask until it finds a match. The packet flow-key is first
| masked with mask in the list and then the masked key is
| looked up in flow-table. Therefore number of masks can
| affect packet processing performance.
Link: 5604935e4e
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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