[ovs-discuss] An OVS switch appliance?

[Justin Pettit]

As Jesse mentioned in the follow-up post, doing pure software switching isn't going to scale well beyond a few ports on commodity PC-level hardware.  The system referenced in the Pronto post is using a traditional switching ASIC and running OVS on the management CPU (a MIPS/PPC/ARM-type processor).  The fast-path is still being handled by the switching ASIC, and the handling of the slow-path is being handled by OVS.  The code in our current master branch was re-factored for just this purpose; OVS handles much of the management functions and then calls hooks into the switching ASIC to set up appropriate flows.

--Justin


On Jun 26, 2011, at 1:43 AM, Guillaume FORTAINE wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> Let me introduce myself : Guillaume FORTAINE, Cloudpreneur.
> 
> I have read with interest the topic entitled "An OVS switch appliance?" :
> 
> http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-February/004804.html
> 
> To quote :
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> "Interested to hear your thoughts on this,"
> 
> 
> That's why, I would greatly appreciate to invite you to a further reading of the blog post entitled "Announce OVS Support" :
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> http://prontosystems.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/announce-ovs-support/
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Guillaume FORTAINE
> gfortaine at gfortaine.biz
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