[ovs-discuss] About Flows and Memory

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Jun 17 05:16:07 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:29:16PM -0300, Victor T. wrote:
> Is there any document or specification of the Flow Tables? Its size,
> or how much memory a flow entry uses? I've been thinking of
> monitoring it...

The flow tables are specified by OpenFlow 1.0 plus the extensions
documented in the source tree in include/openflow/nicira-ext.h.

A flow entry uses a few hundred bytes of memory.



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