>From "lib/mac-learning.h":
#define MAC_MAX 2048
--Justin
On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:57 PM, sachin sharma wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> In your reply to scalability question, you answered that we can modify the
> limit of 2K MAC addresses to any value by changing a #define at openvswitch
> code.
>
> Can you please let me know the file name where I can modify this limit?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Sachin Sharma
>
>
>
> > ? What is the scalability of a large OVS deployment and what
> > abstraction measures are taken to avoid the ?virtual? domain having CAM
> > exhaustion risks on the ?physical? infrastructure?
>
> There shouldn't be much in the way of hard scalability limits in OVS. The
> limits we've put in place (e.g., 2K MAC addresses for the learning table in a
> bridge) are typically just a #define, so they can be adjusted fairly easily
> (although they may not be optimized for radically larger values). However,
> OVS is used in very large, high-density virtualized environments without any
> source-code modification, so it shouldn't be necessary with the proper
> management model.
>
> --Justin
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