[ovs-discuss] in-kernel flow table in the datapath

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Fri Apr 6 00:41:00 UTC 2012


On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Masoud Moshref Javadi
<masood.moshref.j at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the maximum size of the kernel table?

There's no hard limit but the number of flows is regulated by
userspace to avoid excessive overhead.  This is generally in the range
of a few thousand flows.

> What will happen if I have
> 100k flows per second, will they be dropped? queued?

100k flow setups per second?  Or 100k sustained flows?



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