Re: [ovs-discuss] Even with ovs-controller vswitchd is still heavily used

2013-06-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
OVS uses as many controllers as you configure at the same time. Can you point where the manpage says what you report? I would like to correct it, if it has incorrect statements. On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 06:54:17PM +0530, kevin parker wrote: > i dont think ovs uses multiple controller at the same

Re: [ovs-discuss] Even with ovs-controller vswitchd is still heavily used

2013-06-08 Thread kevin parker
i dont think ovs uses multiple controller at the same time,in my case both were used. i am looking for the reason as per man page in secure mode vswitchd will not be used when connection to controller fails,but it does not says that when the connection is working both controller will be used. Rega

Re: [ovs-discuss] Even with ovs-controller vswitchd is still heavily used

2013-06-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Why did you think that setting secure mode would not use ovs-vswitchd? On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:33:31PM +0530, kevin parker wrote: > I thought setting secure mode would not use ovs-vswitchd, but in my case > its using both ovs-controller and ovs-vswitchd > Regards, > Ananthakrishnan > > > On F

Re: [ovs-discuss] Even with ovs-controller vswitchd is still heavily used

2013-06-07 Thread kevin parker
I thought setting secure mode would not use ovs-vswitchd, but in my case its using both ovs-controller and ovs-vswitchd Regards, Ananthakrishnan On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Why do use think it would make a difference? > > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:16:52PM +0530, kevin pa

Re: [ovs-discuss] Even with ovs-controller vswitchd is still heavily used

2013-06-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Why do use think it would make a difference? On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:16:52PM +0530, kevin parker wrote: > Can some one please clarify this,why ovs-vswitchd is used even in secure > mode > > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:58 AM, kevin parker > wrote: > > > and with out controller and in standal

Re: [ovs-discuss] Even with ovs-controller vswitchd is still heavily used

2013-06-07 Thread kevin parker
Can some one please clarify this,why ovs-vswitchd is used even in secure mode On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:58 AM, kevin parker wrote: > and with out controller and in standalone ovs-vswitchd is at ~80% for the > same traffic. > > using > *ovs-vsctl -V* > ovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch) 1.4.2 > Compiled No

Re: [ovs-discuss] Even with ovs-controller vswitchd is still heavily used

2013-06-05 Thread kevin parker
and with out controller and in standalone ovs-vswitchd is at ~80% for the same traffic. using *ovs-vsctl -V* ovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch) 1.4.2 Compiled Nov 23 2012 12:41:37 *ovs-controller -V* ovs-controller (Open vSwitch) 1.4.0+build0 Compiled Feb 18 2013 13:13:22 OpenFlow versions 0x1:0x1 On Thu

Re: [ovs-discuss] Even with ovs-controller vswitchd is still heavily used

2013-06-05 Thread kevin parker
Mostly HTTP, For confirming bench marked Apache with ab, ovs-vswitchd reached 100% and ovs-controller 14% ovs-dpctl show at the time of benchmark system@xenbr0: lookups: hit:55391 missed:966296 lost:0 flows: 0 port 0: xenbr0 (internal) port 3: vif2.1 port 4: vif1.1 Do i need to make any changes

[ovs-discuss] Even with ovs-controller vswitchd is still heavily used

2013-06-05 Thread kevin parker
Hi, i have ovs-controller with default setting (ovs-controller -v ptcp:6633). on xenserver host with ovs *ovs-vsctl get-fail-mode xenbr0* *secure* I set it to secure mode to test that host should not use vswitchd for flows and forward it to controller for generating flow .* * *ovs-vsct