On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 08:14:51AM -0500, jamal wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 15:00 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > The other factor I considered is scalability. The OVS code as is > > is not really friendly to SMP/NUMA scalability (but as Eric pointed, > > neither is the classifier/action layer). > > Did you mean the qdisc funnel-to-interface part which Eric is hopefully > going to work on now that bql is in? classifier/action happens way > before that.
I actually meant the scalability with adding/deleting flows, or in the case with qdiscs, filters. OVS is quite scalable on the fast-path, but when it comes to new flows, you have a bottleneck. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
