On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:04 AM, lin shaopeng <slin0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some heads up, we changed our flow idle_timeout to 300, then ran the test > again, and got around 6000 packet-in per second. > After some investigation, it turns out that most of the ovs-vswitchd CPU > cycles are consumed > by add flow, like classifier_rule_overlaps(), miniflow_equal_in_minimask(), > miniflow_get__ ()...
Checking for overlapping flows in the classifier is very expensive and it is usually unnecessary. If you don't really need to enable that feature, turn it off. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
