On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:07:28PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Linux has an internal queue that temporarily holds packets transmitted to > certain network devices. If too many packets are transmitted to such > network devices within a single list of actions, then packets tend to get > dropped. Broadcast or flooded or multicast packets on bridges with > thousands of ports are examples of how this can occur. > > This commit avoids the problem by implementing a flow in userspace when it > outputs its packet more times than the maximum length of the queue. > > CC: Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> > ---
Hi Ben, The code looks good to me. I used netdev_max_backlog = 110 here and I was able to go all the 4k ports in the test. Without the patch, the failure starts with 112 ports. Thanks! Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
