This patch introduces the MFEX function pointers which allows
the user to switch between different miniflow extract implementations
which are provided by the OVS based on optimized ISA CPU.
The user can query for the available minflow extract variants available
for that CPU by following commands:
$ovs-appctl dpif-netdev/miniflow-parser-get
Similarly an user can set the miniflow implementation by the following
command :
$ ovs-appctl dpif-netdev/miniflow-parser-set name
This allows for more performance and flexibility to the user to choose
the miniflow implementation according to the needs.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Amber <kumar.amber@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
