[ovs-discuss] QoS in OVS compared to tc

[Syed Akbar Mehdi]

As a follow-up question to this, does OVS use tc at the backend to configure
queues? I ask this because lets say I want to configure queues using tc and
then somehow have them reflected in the OVS configuration database, so that
later I can map flows to these queues (e.g. using Openflow). Is this
possible?

Thanks,
Akbar

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Syed Akbar Mehdi <
akbar.mehdi at seecs.nust.edu.pk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The description of the QoS tables in the Open vSwitch configuration
> database (http://openvswitch.org/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5.pdf manual on page
> 21-22) refers to the documentation of the Linux hierarchy token bucket
> classifier at http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm.
>
> However if I configure the Linux-htb classifier using tc, I get the option
> to configure qdiscs and classes in a "hierarchy" which allows fine-grained
> tuning of QoS policies e.g. excess-bandwidth sharing (or not sharing)
> between different classes. The OVS documentation gives the impression that
> this hierarchical configuration is not possible when configuring queues
> using OVS (e.g. using ovs-vsctl). It appears that I can only configure
> queues in a "flat" configuration where all queues are at the same level. Is
> this true? In case it is then what is the policy for excess bandwidth
> sharing between different queues.
>
> Regards,
> Akbar
>



-- 
Regards,
Syed Akbar Mehdi,
School of EECS (SEECS),
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST),
Pakistan.
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