Re: [ovs-dev] Proposal for enabling dp_hash irrespective of OF version

2017-09-29 Thread Jan Scheurich
not require scalability and determinism. > > > > BR, Jan > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@ovn.org] > > > Sent: Monday, 25 September, 2017 18:48 > > > To: Jan Scheurich > > > Cc: Nitin Katiyar ; ovs-dev@op

Re: [ovs-dev] Proposal for enabling dp_hash irrespective of OF version

2017-09-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
Message- > > From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@ovn.org] > > Sent: Monday, 25 September, 2017 18:48 > > To: Jan Scheurich > > Cc: Nitin Katiyar ; ovs-dev@openvswitch.org > > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Proposal for enabling dp_hash irrespective of OF > > version >

Re: [ovs-dev] Proposal for enabling dp_hash irrespective of OF version

2017-09-26 Thread Jan Scheurich
- > From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@ovn.org] > Sent: Monday, 25 September, 2017 18:48 > To: Jan Scheurich > Cc: Nitin Katiyar ; ovs-dev@openvswitch.org > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Proposal for enabling dp_hash irrespective of OF > version > > If the new selection method is superio

Re: [ovs-dev] Proposal for enabling dp_hash irrespective of OF version

2017-09-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
If the new selection method is superior to the default one, is there a reason to require the controller to select it at all? On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 04:28:26PM +, Jan Scheurich wrote: > Hi Ben, > > The current hard-coded default select group implementation requires every > single L4 flow to

Re: [ovs-dev] Proposal for enabling dp_hash irrespective of OF version

2017-09-25 Thread Jan Scheurich
Hi Ben, The current hard-coded default select group implementation requires every single L4 flow to be load-balanced in an upcall and creates a dedicated megaflow for every 5-tuple. This is clearly not scalable in deployments where the number of parallel L4 flows and the L4 flow setup rate is u

Re: [ovs-dev] Proposal for enabling dp_hash irrespective of OF version

2017-09-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:15:55AM +, Nitin Katiyar wrote: > Hi, > I have a proposal to add a provision for using "dp_hash" as selection method > (which can currently be used with OF1.5 based controllers only) irrespective > of the OF version being used by controller. > > The link for docume

[ovs-dev] Proposal for enabling dp_hash irrespective of OF version

2017-09-25 Thread Nitin Katiyar
Hi, I have a proposal to add a provision for using "dp_hash" as selection method (which can currently be used with OF1.5 based controllers only) irrespective of the OF version being used by controller. The link for document is : https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Jiwbs0atV_Y8Vatj6SmQeB_qdM-Ay