Hi Jay, This limit also depends on how long the kernel needs to revalidate your flows. For more details take a look at the following blog post:
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/10/19/open-vswitch-revalidator-process-explained For testing you can use the “ovs-appctl upcall/set-flow-limit <limit>” command, which will directly configure the flow_limit. But this is for testing only, you should not use it in production. Hope this helps. Cheers, Eelco On 13 Mar 2024, at 17:31, Jay Ding via discuss wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to test the limit of number of flows in dp. By increasing the > other_config:flow_limit, I can reach 400k and occasionally 500k. I know there > is no hard limit for that. I am just wondering what is the typical number of > dp flows that is used in data center industry? > > By the way, since the number of dp flows is dynamically adjusted in the > running time. Is there a good way to increase it by changing the OVS configs? > I have increase the flow-limit and max-idle to a fair large number. But the > number of flows I got is around 400k most of the time. > > Thanks, > Jay > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > disc...@openvswitch.org > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list disc...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
