[ovs-dev] [PATCH] mac-learning: Increase default mac table size to 8K from 2K

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Wed Jun 27 14:09:34 UTC 2018


On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 01:24:25PM +0200, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
> In field deployments of OVS (mostly in combination with OpenStack) we
> see that the 2K default MAC forwarding table is too small.
> 
> On average this tables is around 5k entries, hence this patch to
> increase the default value to the next power of 2, i.e. 8K.
> 
> This increase in size does not automatically increase the memory
> footprint, as the memory for the MAC entries, are allocated only when
> needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro at redhat.com>

Applied, thanks!


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