Setting tag sliver-openvswitch-2.2.90-1

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / NEWS

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@@ -2,7 +2,15 @@ Post-v2.2.0
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    - OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are now enabled by default in
      ovs-vswitchd.
-
+   - Linux kernel datapath now has an exact match cache optimizing the
+     flow matching process.
+   - Datapath flows now have partially wildcarded tranport port field
+     matches.  This reduces userspace upcalls, but increases the
+     number of different masks in the datapath.  The kernel datapath
+     exact match cache removes the overhead of matching the incoming
+     packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an
+     older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the
+     new userspace.
 
 v2.2.0 - xx xxx xxx
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@@ -19,7 +27,7 @@ v2.2.0 - xx xxx xxx
    - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its
      log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen'
      instead.
-   - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.13. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
+   - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
      tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN.
    - Added DPDK support.
    - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python