On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:11:18PM +0200, Giuseppe Lettieri wrote: > Il 04/09/2012 16:15, Ben Pfaff ha scritto: > >On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:32:13AM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > >> I have read this > >>post http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2012-August/020157.html and it > >>seems that at the moment this awesome improvements only work under freeBSD. > >> Is in the rode map of OVS the intention of put this available for generic > >>linux distributions, soon? > >I doubt it only works on FreeBSD, but I also doubt that the threaded > >userspace datapath is faster than the Linux-specific kernel datapath. > > You are right on both points. It also works on Linux and, of course, > it is slower than the in-kernel datapath. According to my > measurements, the Open vSwitch kernel datapath is only slightly > slower then the plain Linux bridge, and can do ~800 Kpps in the best > case. > > There is a use, however, for a fast Linux userlevel datapath. We are > trying to add Open Flow support in PlanetLab, and the Open vSwitch > userlevel datapath offers an easy solution for the integration (at > least, far more easier than the kernel datapath).
All that makes sense. Thank you for confirming my guesses. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
