floodlight/switchlight-common — pull request #57 by rlane (2014-06-11 06:24:19+00:00)
Title: throttle ARP idle notifications

Reviewer: @harshsin

The ARP agent was previously sending idle notifications as fast as it could. When many ARP entries timed out at once, most of the messages would be dropped by OFConnectionManager because the write buffer was full. These changes add a limit to how many idle notifications will be sent per timer tick.

Don't ACK yet.