On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Raghu Vadapalli <rvatspac...@gmail.com> wrote: > As per this news article listed below, Rackspace is abandoning Open vSwitch. > Is this where everyone else going in general ?
That conclusion is inaccurate. The entirety of the public cloud runs openvswitch for both public/servicenet connectivity as well as isolated tenant network features.The article is referring to the private cloud distribution no longer choosing to use the Neutron OpenVswitch plugin (https://github.com/openstack/neutron/tree/master/neutron/plugins/openvswitch) as it is being deprecated. The ML2 plugin replaces this and can use a variety of mechanisms including openvswitch. The article's conclusion that openvswitch is not ready for production and high-volume workloads is ludicrous. Versions 2.0+ perform very well with multithreading in the vswitchd process and megaflows in the datapath. However it is important to point out that datapath performance is very much related to the flows programmed. A poorly written flow set will result in bad performance. Tuning the flows and optimizing the ability for megaflow'ing is the key to high throughput. Happy Hacking! 7-11 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
