Alex,

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com> wrote:
> Hey Han,
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Han Zhou <zhou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> We had to upgrade to OVS2.1, and everything looks much better.
>> The flow miss rate decreased from 20K/sec to 1.5K/sec, which means in
>> OVS2.0 there was problem of creating datapath flows (indicated by the
>> counter subfacet_install_fail), which then resulted in high miss rate
>> and high OVS cpu.
>>
>
>
> Still, want to know the kind if traffic you used in your test.
>
>
It is not traffic in test, but production environment with thousands
of VMs running in overlay networks behind the GW.
The traffic pattern doesn't change before and after upgrading to OVS2.1.
>
>>
>> However, there are still occasional increase of upcall_queue_overflow,
>> and the cpu load of handler threads are not high (< 10 %).
>> upcall_queue_overflow      0.0/sec     0.000/sec        0.1339/sec
>> total: 15671
>>
>
>
> This sample is outdated, since there is no queue overflow in the
> last 5 sec nor last minute.  so you cannot tell, that the cpu utilization
> when the queue overflow happens.
>
>
>>
>> This problem should go away when dispatcher is removed, do you know
>> when would it be in stable release?
>>
>
>
> The removal of dispatcher thread will help,
>

May I know the estimated release date of this feature? E.g. OVS2.2?

Best regards,
Han
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