Re: [ovs-discuss] [ovn] lport name

2015-10-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
[adding back the mailing list] On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 05:03:02PM -0700, Murali R wrote: > >The lport name has to be the same as the iface-id so that ovn-controller > >can identify the lport that an interface that shows up on br-int > >corresponds to. > > Not sure how this will sit with usability

Re: [ovs-discuss] [PATCH-RFC 1/2] Improve ARP latency

2015-10-07 Thread dwilder
Quoting Jesse Gross : On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 4:19 PM, wrote: Quoting Jesse Gross : On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:50 PM, wrote: Hi- I have been conducting scaling tests with OVS and docker. My tests revealed that the latency of ARP packets can become very large resulting in many ARP re-t

Re: [ovs-discuss] [ovn] lport name

2015-10-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 04:10:31PM -0700, Murali R wrote: > Ref: http://benpfaff.org/~blp/dist-docs/ovn-nbctl.8.pdf > > I was not able to use same lport name across networks (lswitch). Is there a > reason we need to have unique constraint for lport name across networks? If > I am scripting to crea

[ovs-discuss] [ovn] lport name

2015-10-07 Thread Murali R
(sorry didn't realize & an earlier email on same topic went into dev@ Please ignore that email) Ref: http://benpfaff.org/~blp/dist-docs/ovn-nbctl.8.pdf I was not able to use same lport name across networks (lswitch). Is there a reason we need to have unique constraint for lport name across networ

[ovs-discuss] set dpdk packet refcnt when flow output to group.

2015-10-07 Thread David Evans
Hi all, While using netdev-dpdk - When i add a rule for which the action is to send to a group (type=all) containing (x) output buckets (ports) how can i increment the dp_packet->pkt_mbuf’s refcnt to (x) so that the packet is not deleted before it has transmitted all ports(buckets) in the grou

[ovs-discuss] openflow 'group' and dpdk packet refcnt?

2015-10-07 Thread David Evans
Hi All. When using the openflow group feature with dpdk ports how are the packet refcnt handled so that packets are not deleted before all the ports have forwarded the packet? i can’t see a reference to any refcnt anywhere to manage this. This becomes a little more exciting (segfaults attempti

[ovs-discuss] FW: Scaling ovsdb-idl's update notification

2015-10-07 Thread Ansari, Shad
Building on some of the suggestions in this thread, a patch/pull-request was submitted to add support for change tracking in ovsdb-idl: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/pull/78 Another ovsdb-idl scaling use case of interest is update notifications for columns that change frequently. Classic c

Re: [ovs-discuss] Fwd: packet_out message

2015-10-07 Thread Manpreet Singh
Thanks Ben For Reply!!! On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 09:18:24PM +0530, Manpreet Singh wrote: > > In packet_out message when we specify the OFPP_TABLE reserved port as an > > output action, then actions are perform in flow tables on packet. > > > > T

Re: [ovs-discuss] Fwd: packet_out message

2015-10-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 09:18:24PM +0530, Manpreet Singh wrote: > In packet_out message when we specify the OFPP_TABLE reserved port as an > output action, then actions are perform in flow tables on packet. > > There are 254 tables, my question is that who's actions will be perform on > it out of

[ovs-discuss] Fwd: packet_out message

2015-10-07 Thread Manpreet Singh
Hi All, In packet_out message when we specify the OFPP_TABLE reserved port as an output action, then actions are perform in flow tables on packet. There are 254 tables, my question is that who's actions will be perform on it out of 254. Regards, Manpreet Singh __

[ovs-discuss] Fwd: crash in service with invalid group type

2015-10-07 Thread Manpreet Singh
Hello Team, I am working on OVS-2.3.2. I got a strange behavior while sending group_mod message for add group with invalid group type with RYU controller. Syntax: OFPGroupMod (datapath, command=0, type_=0, group_id=0, buckets=[]) ofproto_v1_3_parser.OFPGroupMod(datapath, ofproto_v1_3 .OFPGC_ADD,

Re: [ovs-discuss] [openvswitch 2.4.0] testsuite: 739 failed

2015-10-07 Thread Kurek, Tytus
Hi Ben, Thanks for the update. That worked! Regards Tytus Kurek | Lead Infrastructure Engineer / Special Projects | Pegasystems Inc. Mobile: 0048513106743 | E-Mail: tytus.ku...@pega.com | www.pega.com      -Original Message- From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@nicira.com] Sent: 29 września

Re: [ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] Openflow messages processing rate

2015-10-07 Thread RishiRaj Maulick
Hi Ben, Thanks for the reply. Do you have any data for the openflow messages per second that is supported by vswitchd. It will be helpful to us . Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Rishi Raj On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 09:09:56PM +0530, RishiRaj M

Re: [ovs-discuss] Handling "Port Shutdown" message

2015-10-07 Thread tech_kals Kals
Hi Ben, Assume when any Openflow agent uses OVS openflow stack to interact with the controller. When port is configured admin down in the hardware. Openflow agent wants to inform the controller about the port shut hence it will send port shutdown message to OVS. It is the responsibility of OVS t

Re: [ovs-discuss] Handling "Port Shutdown" message

2015-10-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 11:21:05AM +0530, tech_kals Kals wrote: > Assume when any Openflow agent uses OVS openflow stack to interact with > the controller. When port is configured admin down in the hardware. > Openflow agent wants to inform the controller about the port shut hence it > will send

Re: [ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] Openflow messages processing rate

2015-10-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 03:00:15PM +0530, RishiRaj Maulick wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Do you have any data for the openflow messages per > second that is supported by vswitchd. It will be helpful to us . I don't. Maybe someone else will speak up. __

Re: [ovs-discuss] Range of Group ID

2015-10-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 04:33:03PM +0530, Dheeraj Bansal wrote: > I am trying to get the valid range of group id. > (lets say for the 'group_id' parameter of 'add-group' command) > > All I can deduce till now is: > Valid range : (0) to (2^32 - 1) > from -(2^64 - 1) to (2^64 - 1), mod is taken of 2

[ovs-discuss] Range of Group ID

2015-10-07 Thread Dheeraj Bansal
Hi all, I am trying to get the valid range of group id. (lets say for the 'group_id' parameter of 'add-group' command) All I can deduce till now is: Valid range : (0) to (2^32 - 1) from -(2^64 - 1) to (2^64 - 1), mod is taken of 2^32 other numbers are invalid. Error : (2^32 - 2^8 + 1) to (2^32 -