On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Hanish Gogada <[email protected]> wrote: > i am trying to gauge the performance of ovs using 64K flows. i am pumping > the packets of 1K size > on 8 core machine with a 10 gig interface with line rate 1.2Mpps, ovs is > at receiving side > on 8 core machine having 10 gig interface. I observed that with 64K flows > the ovs is switching > only 30% of line rate. when i disabled periodic deletion of flows it was > able to switch the line rate > > can any one tell me, whether this is the performance range of ovs, can this > be bettered by any > configuration of the ovs. if so please suggest me some configuration to > improve performance of ovs.
You can use ovs-vsctl set bridge BR other-config:flow-eviction-threshold=X to set the number of flows kept in the kernel table above the expected number of sustained flows. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
