[ovs-discuss] Strange behavior with paths longer than 5 hops.

Vjekoslav Brajkovic balkan at cs.washington.edu
Wed Jul 18 04:29:31 UTC 2012


Alright. Thank you for the info Jesse!

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Vjekoslav Brajkovic
> <balkan at cs.washington.edu> wrote:
> > I can't reduce the number of hops. We're doing large scale emulations
> using
> > topologies that are synthesised from the Rocketfuel dataset. Therefore,
> the
> > design can't be more efficient.
>
> You can arbitrarily subdivide things using flows.
>
> > The example above was used only to explain the conditions under which
> this
> > problem occurs.
> >
> > All broadcast traffic that we send is forwarded along the spanning tree,
> so
> > I don't see any reason why the machine would crash.
>
> I already told you: you will blow the kernel stack at some point.
> Spanning tree has nothing to do with it.
>
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