Hi Ben, OVS-experts, On a different note, do we have stats of %-time spent in fast path vs slow path in a real world deployment. How many flows are typically "active" and how frequently do they get updated/aged out in real deployments.
Thanks for any pointers. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > I'm not aware of such source code. (If there was a good example of such > a port, we probably would have at least considered integrating it into > the public OVS tree, but no one has mentioned such a port to us.) > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 02:38:34AM -0700, Learner Study wrote: >> Hi Justin, OVS-experts, >> >> Are you aware of any open source code for such a port to non Unix >> platform? Somewhere I read that older versions of OVS supported this >> but I couldn't locate anything relevant. >> >> I'm interested in learning how HW based offload could be utilized to >> accelerate performance. Given that the kernel datapath is relatively >> simple (~3k lines) as compared to slow path (~30k lines), I would like >> to know if someone has implemented datapath in HW (or HW accelerated) >> and any pointers on performance and/or CPU utilization difference. Are >> there any HW based that support this? >> I came across Intel's NIC that has VM based device queue support but >> IMHO, that is only part of the solution... >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com> wrote: >> > I know of projects that ported to non-Unix systems. However, I'm not >> > aware of anyone that has attempted an ESX port. >> > >> > --Justin >> > >> > >> > On Aug 23, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Vijay Chander <vijay.chan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Hello, >> >> I was looking at the ovs PORTING guidelines in openvswitch-1.7.0. They >> >> are >> >> oriented towards unix-like platforms. Has anyone attempted a port of OVS >> >> to >> >> ESX ? >> >> >> >> Any pointers/comments are welcome. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> -vijay >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> dev mailing list >> >> dev@openvswitch.org >> >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > dev mailing list >> > dev@openvswitch.org >> > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> dev@openvswitch.org >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
