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authorJoe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>2015-10-14 13:17:44 -0700
committerJoe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>2015-10-15 09:22:17 -0700
commit06745dc30112f56115eb0efa1bee03ca7acfc97c (patch)
tree414ef5233d70e38446bce2eb6e1d1a00f47455de /vswitchd
parent4d5c43d51af40c0e9d7d662a98e2c6df0660161f (diff)
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vswitch.xml: Update docs for max-idle.
When this configuration parameter was initially introduced into the database, the documentation was not updated to describe where it resides. Add the documentation, with the caveat that in most situations, there is no need to tweak this option and it is primarily present for the benefit of developers working on flow caching. Fixes: 72310b041cfa ("upcall: Configure datapath max-idle through ovs-vsctl.") Reported-by: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@dev.mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
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diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index c94f42d13..aac4bd8c7 100644
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -152,6 +152,20 @@
</p>
</column>
+ <column name="other_config" key="max-idle"
+ type='{"type": "integer", "minInteger": 500}'>
+ <p>
+ The maximum time (in ms) that idle flows will remain cached in the
+ datapath. Internally OVS will check the validity and activity for
+ datapath flows regularly and may expire flows quicker than this
+ number, based on real time network conditions. Tweaking this
+ value is discouraged unless you know exactly what you're doing.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The default is 10000.
+ </p>
+ </column>
+
<column name="other_config" key="n-dpdk-rxqs"
type='{"type": "integer", "minInteger": 1}'>
<p>