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    openvswitch: Optimize sample action for the clone use cases · 798c1661
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    With the introduction of open flow 'clone' action, the OVS user space
    can now translate the 'clone' action into kernel datapath 'sample'
    action, with 100% probability, to ensure that the clone semantics,
    which is that the packet seen by the clone action is the same as the
    packet seen by the action after clone, is faithfully carried out
    in the datapath.
    
    While the sample action in the datpath has the matching semantics,
    its implementation is only optimized for its original use.
    Specifically, there are two limitation: First, there is a 3 level of
    nesting restriction, enforced at the flow downloading time. This
    limit turns out to be too restrictive for the 'clone' use case.
    Second, the implementation avoid recursive call only if the sample
    action list has a single userspace action.
    
    The main optimization implemented in this series removes the static
    nesting limit check, instead, implement the run time recursion limit
    check, and recursion avoidance similar to that of the 'recirc' action.
    This optimization solve both #1 and #2 issues above.
    
    One related optimization attempts to avoid copying flow key as
    long as the actions enclosed does not change the flow key. The
    detection is performed only once at the flow downloading time.
    
    Another related optimization is to rewrite the action list
    at flow downloading time in order to save the fast path from parsing
    the sample action list in its original form repeatedly.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Zhou <azhou@ovn.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarPravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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