net: openvswitch: add flow-mask cache for performance
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: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/5604935e4e1cbc16611d2d97f50b717aa31e8ec5 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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