[ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] Rate Limit - help

mvpbl_c at iol.pt mvpbl_c at iol.pt
Mon Aug 20 16:54:29 UTC 2012


Hello

    Thanks again Ben for the quick answer.

    You said: "Open vSwitch contains a token bucket implementation, but the
ingress
    rate limiting feature does not use this token bucket implementation."

    So the Open vSwitch tocken bucket implementation is used what for?

    Regards
    Marco

    Citando Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 05:46:40PM +0100, mvpbl_c at iol.pt wrote:  >  
> Have someone tested if the rate limit works properly on OpenvSwitch
>>    1.8.90, that is the version I have installed, or in other version?
>   I have not tested it myself.
>> You said: "It's a feature of the Linux kernel.  Open vSwitch just
>>    configures the feature." But I think openvSwitch implements token bucket
>>    on source code because there are token-bucket.c and token-bucket.h.
>   Open vSwitch contains a token bucket implementation, but the ingress
>   rate limiting feature does not use this token bucket implementation.
>> My procedures are: create a bridge br0 and I after add eth0 and eth1,
>>    and after this I set the rate an burst. The interfaces eth0 and eth1 have
>>    to be mandatory virtual interfaces? or can be normal physical interfaces?
>   A physical interface is fine.
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