[ovs-discuss] Need help with OVS on two cores

2014-03-01 Thread Sujayyendhiren RAMARAO SRINIVASAMURTHI
Good day I am using OVS on a machine that has two cores. I believe 'data plane packet' load sharing can be done using software interfaces but i am interested in running OVS modules in each of the two cores, so that each of the two instances are bound to a core. By doing this can i expect to doubl

[ovs-discuss] VM overlay network: what technology is supported?

2014-03-01 Thread Pasquale Dir
I want to have a group of virtual machines which can be on different nodes but have the illusion of being on the same network. Throught openvswitch I would take care of the communication between different machines if they belong to different phisical networks. There should be just a port on my op

Re: [ovs-discuss] 2.0.1 release

2014-03-01 Thread Vasiliy Tolstov
Thanks! 2014-03-01 22:14 GMT+04:00 Justin Pettit : > > On Feb 28, 2014, at 9:06 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:47:39AM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote: >>> Hello. As i see on main sire in releases only 2.0.0 exists, but in git >>> repo exists 2.0.1. >>> Is that possible to add

Re: [ovs-discuss] CPU load caused by software interrupts

2014-03-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
Packet processing occurs in software interrupts, so this is unavoidable. On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 10:26:59AM -0500, Sujayyendhiren RAMARAO SRINIVASAMURTHI wrote: > Good day > > Few more questions: > - I have also observed that at high data rates OpenVSwitch CPU loading is > about 50% and most of

Re: [ovs-discuss] 2.0.1 release

2014-03-01 Thread Justin Pettit
On Feb 28, 2014, at 9:06 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:47:39AM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote: >> Hello. As i see on main sire in releases only 2.0.0 exists, but in git >> repo exists 2.0.1. >> Is that possible to add it to release page? > > Justin, can you add a release tarba

[ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch 2.0.1 Available

2014-03-01 Thread Justin Pettit
The Open vSwitch team is pleased to announce the release of Open vSwitch 2.0.1 from our LTS (long-term support) series: http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-2.0.1.tar.gz This release only contains bug fixes. Thank you to those who reported bugs and sent in fixes. Enjoy! --The Open

Re: [ovs-discuss] Physical Ip Address

2014-03-01 Thread fantonio
Thank you for the reply. I read the FAQ looking for a solution which solve my problem. I need the devices of LAN still see the physical NIC of my PC-Linux as a IP-MAC and not only MAC. It means when PC-LINUX recieve an ARP, it should reply with the information of IP-MAC. Regards, Filipe Q

[ovs-discuss] Is it possible to share a dhcp server among openvswitches?

2014-03-01 Thread Pasquale Dir
My intention is to create a virtualnetwork between vms. Let us assume two networks: I set a gre tunnel between two openvswitches which are located on two pc, each pc belongs to a different network. Now, I make sure there is just one dhcp server and it is on the network 1. Also, I make sure that b

Re: [ovs-discuss] Is it possible to share a dhcp server among openvswitches?

2014-03-01 Thread Pasquale Dir
edit: Will this work? Will every vm on the network 2 obtain ip address from the dhcp located *on the network 1* ? 2014-03-01 17:38 GMT+01:00 Pasquale Dir : > My intention is to create a virtualnetwork between vms. > > Let us assume two networks: I set a gre tunnel between two openvswitches > whi

[ovs-discuss] CPU load caused by software interrupts

2014-03-01 Thread Sujayyendhiren RAMARAO SRINIVASAMURTHI
Good day Few more questions: - I have also observed that at high data rates OpenVSwitch CPU loading is about 50% and most of it is due to software interrupts. Can that be reduced by changing any of the configuration parameters/Implementations ? Regards Sujayyendhiren On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:4