Given how many Vms any hypervisor can respectably service, even if one bridge is dedicated to VM (I know there not much use to this type of connectivity); even a hundered or few more bridges is unrealistic. So I guess we may not have to worry too much about the limit.
Thanks for a quick assist Shetty. On 9/19/13 12:41 PM, "Gurucharan Shetty" <shet...@nicira.com> wrote: >On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Faisal Ali <justhu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How many bridges can a openvswitch have. Is there a hard limit. > >From ovs-vswitchd man page: > ovs-vswitchd started through ovs-ctl(8) provides a >limit of 7500 file descriptors. The limits on the number of > bridges and ports is decided by the availability of file >descriptors. With the Linux kernel datapath, creation of > a single bridge consumes 3 file descriptors and adding a >port consumes 1 file descriptor. Performance will degrade > beyond 1,024 ports per bridge due to fixed hash table >sizing. Other platforms may have different limitations. > >> >> Thanks >> Faisal Ali >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discuss mailing list >> discuss@openvswitch.org >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
