[ovs-dev] OVS and macvtap - statistics

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Sat Jun 8 00:56:51 UTC 2013


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:46 AM, K.R Kishore <krkishore at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to understand the statistics from ovs-dpctl and reconcile that
> with stats from other tools. I am finding it difficult to make sense of the
> numbers, perhaps someone can point me to some documentation about how this
> works? There are numerous links on the web and it is quite confusing as I am
> not sure which is authoritative.
>
> My setup is as follows:
>
> Two machines connected back-to-back via 10G NICs
> Both machines running RHEL 6.4/ wKVM; Two VMs on each, both running CentOS
> 6.4
> OVS 1.10 installed on both;
> Created bridge (ovsbr0) and connected the VMs via macvtap (bridge mode
> -allegedly; VMM says bridge mode, but the host cannot VM and vice-versa; VMs
> can communicate with external hosts/VMs)
>
> I also have linux bridges (br0 & br1) on these VMs but they bridge the VMs
> to different physical ports (p4p1 and em1)
>
> Ran netperf (and netserver) between host1-vm1 and host2-vm1successfully; got
> stats from neperf
>
> I have attached the stats outputs from ovs-dpctl, ifconfig -a and  ip -s
> link and I cannot reconcile these:
> - The port numbers do not match across these, but I can ignore that for now
> - The Rx packets and bytes from ovs-dpctl (port 2: p4p2) does not match (or
> come close to) the ipconfig -a p4p2  or 'ip -s link' (for p4p2)
> - The macvtap ports do show the traffic coming out of the VMs (I see the
> increments in the same ballpark when I run netperf and observe through ip -s
> link and ipconfig -a)
> -
>
> Is all traffic going through OVS bridge (ovsbr0)? Does ovs-dpctl count show
> something? Do I need to enable statistics somewhere?

OVS tracks packets that have flowed through the switch since the port
was connected whereas the interface statistics show counts since boot.
My guess is that accounts for the difference.



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