Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs-vswitchd 2.0 has high cpu usage

2013-11-25 Thread Chengyuan Li
Hi Alex, Thanks for the answer. Yes, you are right, for the software dispather, when scaling from one thread to two threads, it shall have packet disorder issue. B.T.W. how did you test the short-lived connections? Regards, CY. On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Alex Wang wrote: > Hey, > > Wa

Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs-vswitchd 2.0 has high cpu usage

2013-11-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 03:24:17PM +0800, Chengyuan Li wrote: > Do you have suggested max threads number? Ethan, how many threads do you suggest using? Chengyuan has a 32-core machine and sees high CPU usage with 28 threads, much lower with 4 threads. _

Re: [ovs-discuss] questions about fake-bridge

2013-11-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 08:10:40PM +0800, chen zhang wrote: > hi dear all! > is fake-bridge just devised for the ports in with the same vlan tag in > real-bridge? > > i make it like this: > ovs-vsctl add-br br0 > ovs-vsctl add-br br1 br0 2 > ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth1(connecting with host 1,172.1

Re: [ovs-discuss] Packet drops with high rate of Packet_In

2013-11-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 03:15:07PM +0100, Anton Matsiuk wrote: > as Open vSwitch stores only 256 Packet_Ins in buffer (OFPT_FEATURES_REPLY: > n_buffers = 256) after 256 packets it sets Buffer_ID to 0x. > Controller didn't check this value as incorrect and placed it into > responses in flow_

Re: [ovs-discuss] Source-specific multicast support in Openvswtich

2013-11-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:51:35AM -0800, Taurus Cheung wrote: > We are running VM guest on OpenStack. I would like to know whether > Openvswitch supports SSM (Source-specific multicast: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-specific_multicast). [...] No, OVS has no built-in support for SSM, thoug

[ovs-discuss] Source-specific multicast support in Openvswtich

2013-11-25 Thread Taurus Cheung
Hi all, We are running VM guest on OpenStack. I would like to know whether Openvswitch supports SSM (Source-specific multicast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-specific_multicast). From our experiment, the VM guest receives all multicast traffic no matter the source address of traffic matc

Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs-vswitchd 2.0 has high cpu usage

2013-11-25 Thread Alex Wang
Hey, Want to try answering your question, 1. If your hardware uses hyperthreading, I recommend do not specify 'n-handler-threads' more than # of real cores. > For the the upcall dispatcher, currently it's using hash function to find > a miss-handler, it's some kind of load balance selection f

Re: [ovs-discuss] hot topic for my thesis

2013-11-25 Thread Peter Phaal
Installing Mininet on your laptop is a great way to experiment with OVS / SDN: http://mininet.org/ The Frenetic project (a collaboration between Princeton and Cornell) is a very interesting approach to building controllers. http://www.frenetic-lang.org/ The following article describes some exp

Re: [ovs-discuss] Packet drops with high rate of Packet_In

2013-11-25 Thread Anton Matsiuk
Hello Ben, thank you for help! as Open vSwitch stores only 256 Packet_Ins in buffer (OFPT_FEATURES_REPLY: n_buffers = 256) after 256 packets it sets Buffer_ID to 0x. Controller didn't check this value as incorrect and placed it into responses in flow_mods and packet_outs, that caused packe

[ovs-discuss] questions about fake-bridge

2013-11-25 Thread chen zhang
hi dear all! is fake-bridge just devised for the ports in with the same vlan tag in real-bridge? i make it like this: ovs-vsctl add-br br0 ovs-vsctl add-br br1 br0 2 ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth1(connecting with host 1,172.16.0.1) ifconfig br0 172.16.0.10 ifconfig br1 172.16.0.11 it succeeded when

[ovs-discuss] hot topic for my thesis

2013-11-25 Thread eager
Dear address, Im a Computer Network Engineering Master student in Sweden and looking for some topic for my thesis. Is there any hot topic which i could contribute as my thesis? I have only 1,5 months to do it, so the topic shouldn't be too complex/hard! Regards Peter Ozsvath ___