[ovs-dev] [PATCH 7/7] tunneling: Allow disabling tunnel header caching.

[Jesse Gross]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:13:45AM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> Tunnel header caching significantly improves performance by bypassing
>> much of the transmit path.  However, in some special cases or for
>> debugging it may be desirable to traverse the entire IP stack.  This
>> exposes that as an option (default is enabled).
>
> The default is to enable header caching; to me, the commit message
> implies that traversing the entire IP stack is enabled.

I see what you mean.  Thanks, I clarified that.