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1. For a managed forwarding element that receives and processes a set of packets, a method comprising:
for each of a plurality of packets in the set, using entries in a cache to associate the packet with one of several groups of other packets in the set, each group of packets sharing a set of characteristics, and each entry in the cache comprising a set of packet header values and a reference to a flow entry, said using the entries for a packet comprising:
comparing a set of header values of the packet against one or more sets of header values of one or more entries in the cache to determine whether the packet matches any entry in the cache;when the packet matches an entry in the cache, associating the packet with a group according to the referenced flow entry; andwhen the packet does not match any entry in the cache, associating the packet with a group of unmatched packets; for each group of packets, identifying a set of actions to perform from the referenced flow entry; and for each group of packets, executing the specified set of actions on all of the packets in the group together. |
