Can you show us the "ovs-dpctl show" output?

Thanks,

Ben.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:30:05AM -0400, samantha Andares wrote:
> hi ben, 
>  
> thanks for your feedback.
>  
> I am getting 100% packets drop.. If problem was with the amount of 
> messages... I presume some would have been going through... as stated in my 
> latest email.... this is specific to when going out on a USB to Ethernet 
> adaptor on a specific hardware (beagle bone board). I am using OVS 2.0 and 
> Ubuntu 14.04. How can we analyse the messages in userspace and why would the 
> message go to userspace... shouldn't it stay in kernel space if it matches a 
> flow and just be forwarded to the outgoing physical port as per the rule is 
> saying? My traffic is simple iperf udp messages.. tried flow of 10MB and 
> 100KB... problem is the same...
>  
> thanks, 
>  
> sam
>  
> > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 08:20:24 -0700
> > From: b...@nicira.com
> > To: sam.anda...@hotmail.com
> > CC: disc...@openvswitch.org; dev@openvswitch.org
> > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] debugging OVS
> > 
> > [dropping mininet-discuss because it is a closed mailing list and I am
> > not a subscriber]
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 05:37:43PM -0400, samantha Andares wrote:
> > > I am getting packets dropped when going out of an OVS bridge. The TX
> > > dropped is increased in ovs-dpctl but not at the physical interface
> > > level (ifconfig).
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me how to enable some OVS debugging so I can find the
> > > reason to fix that problem?
> > 
> > Do you mean that ovs-dpctl shows the datapath's "drop" count is going
> > up?  If so, the problem is that packets that need attention from
> > userspace are arriving faster than userspace can process them.  The best
> > way to reduce drops is to upgrade to the latest version of Open vSwitch,
> > which is 2.3, because we've spent a lot of time the last few years
> > coming up with ways to reduce the number of packets that have to be sent
> > to userspace.  If you are already using 2.3, then I am surprised that
> > you are seeing lots of drops.  Is there anything unusual about your
> > environment or the traffic that you are using?
>                                         
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