[ovs-dev] [optimize 00/26] improve performance for short flows

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 05:18:40PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> This series improves ovs-vswitchd performance for short flows about
>> 3X, from about 40,000 flows/s to about 120,000.  Tomorrow I will
>> post more detailed performance analysis.
>
> As promised, here's commit-by-commit performance numbers for the
> command
> ovs-benchmark -T600 rate -r 192.168.0.2:32768-50000 -l :32768-50000 -s 300
> run between a couple of desktop boxes.

A TCP connection consists of two flows, so double the numbers in the
output to get the flows/s numbers that I mentioned in the original message.