Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-03 Thread Jesse Gross
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Vijay Chander wrote: > Jesse, >  To add to Juan's points, we are not power users of OVS. All we need is a DMAC > based switching of packets paying attention to VLAN ids. > >  Short lived/long lived flows happen at L4 level which we don't want OVS to > pay attention

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-03 Thread Jesse Gross
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Juan Tellez wrote: > Jesse, > >> I don't really see anything in the information that you've given that >> indicates OVS is the one dropping packets > > We do not see the same problem with the Linux Bridge, and we want to use the > vswitch. > > Is it possible that o

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-03 Thread Vijay Chander
2 9:20 AM > To: Juan Tellez > Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org; Vijay Chander > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99 > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Juan Tellez wrote: > > Jesse, > > > >>>> What's the traffic mixture like when you have th

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-03 Thread Juan Tellez
--- From: Jesse Gross [mailto:je...@nicira.com] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:20 AM To: Juan Tellez Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org; Vijay Chander Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99 On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Juan Tellez wrote: > Jesse, > >>>> What&#

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-03 Thread Jesse Gross
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Juan Tellez wrote: > Jesse, > What's the traffic mixture like when you have this problem with vlans (i.e. single flow vs. many connections)?  If you run a single stream, what is the ratio of hits to misses on the relevant datapath? > > Our traffic

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-02 Thread Juan Tellez
ruary 02, 2012 6:36 PM To: Juan Tellez Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org; Vijay Chander Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99 On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Juan Tellez wrote: > Jesse, > > Dmesg hasn't changed for a while .. and sadly it is not time-stamped.  Below >

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-02 Thread Jesse Gross
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Juan Tellez wrote: > Jesse, > > Dmesg hasn't changed for a while .. and sadly it is not time-stamped.  Below > is the tail: > > .. > device vif467.1 entered promiscuous mode > device tap467.0 entered promiscuous mode > device tap467.1 entered promiscuous mode > /lo

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-01 Thread Juan Tellez
ailto:je...@nicira.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 5:54 PM To: Juan Tellez Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99 On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Juan Tellez wrote: > We also suspect vswitchd as responsible for dropping packets. >

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-01 Thread Jesse Gross
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Juan Tellez wrote: > We also suspect vswitchd as responsible for dropping packets. > > > >     39:  RX packets:494125 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > 40:  TX packets:519707 errors:0 dropped:8357 overruns:0 > carrier:0 > > 46: 

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-01 Thread Juan Tellez
into a HotFix. Thanks, Juan -Original Message- From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@nicira.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 5:20 PM To: Juan Tellez Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99 On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 01:18:35AM +, Juan T

Re: [ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 01:18:35AM +, Juan Tellez wrote: > XenServer 6.0 is currently running 1.0.99 OpenVswitch. > > We see excessive CPU consumption by ovs-vswitchd when running vlan traffic: Citrix released a hotfix for that problem. ___ discuss

[ovs-discuss] xenServer and openVswitch 1.0.99

2012-02-01 Thread Juan Tellez
XenServer 6.0 is currently running 1.0.99 OpenVswitch. We see excessive CPU consumption by ovs-vswitchd when running vlan traffic: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 6814 root 10 -10 16692 11m 1044 R 89.2 0.4 3339:02 ovs-vswitchd 1617 root 20 0