Thank you so much Ben, but I am new to this ovs QoS stuff, could you please
refer me to some Linux-Kernel based QoS material I should start from? I
googled it but I am not getting it clearly.

Thank you!


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 03:49:13PM +0500, Sadia Bashir wrote:
> > I am working on ovs, queues and pox-controller. I have created queues on
> > the switch and configured them for max-rate and min-rate. I en-queue
> > packets on certain queues but I want to give different delay to packets
> > passing through different queues, like if it is queue 1, than there
> should
> > be a delay of 10ms, if it is queue 2 than 20ms and so on. For adding
> these
> > delays, I don't want my ovs to talk to controller. Do anyone has got any
> > idea how is it achievable while staying at OVS.
>
> Q: I'd like to take advantage of some QoS feature that Open vSwitch
>    doesn't yet support.  How do I do that?
>
> A: Open vSwitch does not implement QoS itself.  Instead, it can
>    configure some, but not all, of the QoS features built into the
>    Linux kernel.  If you need some QoS feature that OVS cannot
>    configure itself, then the first step is to figure out whether
>    Linux QoS supports that feature.  If it does, then you can submit a
>    patch to support Open vSwitch configuration for that feature, or
>    you can use "tc" directly to configure the feature in Linux.  (If
>    Linux QoS doesn't support the feature you want, then first you have
>    to add that support to Linux.)
>



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