Re: [ovs-discuss] SR-IOV and storage over OVS

2013-04-04 Thread Ramana Reddy
You can use 10Gb NIC cards, but when you assign vnic to each VM, the traffic is directly goes through VNIC, and not through OVS. The observed behaviour is that if the traffic goes via OVS, you may not see 10Gb speed, and it varies. What is the need of sending traffic via OVS. Is there any decisio

[ovs-discuss] SR-IOV and storage over OVS

2013-04-04 Thread Kristoffer Egefelt
Hi, I want to use 10Gig Intel x520 NICs - should I: - Run storage (iscsi/nfs) over OVS ? - Create VFs and run storage and OVS on separate interfaces ? - Buy more physical NICs even if I don't need the bandwidth ? Any experiences with SR-IOV, storage latency or other issues to suggest one over t

Re: [ovs-discuss] Flow_table eviction policy

2013-04-04 Thread NGUYEN Xuan Nam
On 04/04/2013 04:12 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 05:48:44PM +0200, NGUYEN Xuan Nam wrote: I would like to ask more about eviction policy of OpenFlow Flow's Table 1. If I don't specify the groups field, which entry will be removed? All flows are put into a single group, and then

Re: [ovs-discuss] Flow_table eviction policy

2013-04-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 05:48:44PM +0200, NGUYEN Xuan Nam wrote: > I would like to ask more about eviction policy of OpenFlow Flow's Table > > 1. If I don't specify the groups field, which entry will be removed? All flows are put into a single group, and then eviction proceeds in the manner docum