ovn/actions: Improve OVN load-balancing performance.

Currently, we send the first packet of every new connection to userspace to figure out the target IP address of load-balancing. With this patch, we use the selection method of dp_hash to prevent that situation. Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <[email protected]> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
qihuaheng · Sep 28, 2017 · eacd48e · eacd48e
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diff --git a/ovn/lib/actions.c b/ovn/lib/actions.c
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ encode_CT_LB(const struct ovnact_ct_lb *cl,
                             : MFF_LOG_DNAT_ZONE - MFF_REG0;
 
     struct ds ds = DS_EMPTY_INITIALIZER;
-    ds_put_format(&ds, "type=select");
+    ds_put_format(&ds, "type=select,selection_method=dp_hash");
 
     BUILD_ASSERT(MFF_LOG_CT_ZONE >= MFF_REG0);
     BUILD_ASSERT(MFF_LOG_CT_ZONE < MFF_REG0 + FLOW_N_REGS);