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authorBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2010-09-22 16:45:30 -0700
committerBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2010-09-23 11:45:35 -0700
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ovs-vswitchd: Export system stats through Open_vSwitch table.
This is intended to provide controllers enough information to determine whether a switch is overloaded or busted, to enable them to spread load fairly across a group of switches. Feature #2421. CC: Peter Balland <peter@nicira.com>
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@@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ lib/entropy.c assumes that it can obtain high-quality random number
seeds at startup by reading from /dev/urandom. You will need to
modify it if this is not true on your platform.
+vswitchd/system-stats.c only knows how to obtain some statistics on
+Linux. Optionally you may implement them for your platform as well.
+
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