[ovs-discuss] performance

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Tue Sep 11 16:35:01 UTC 2012


On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:52 AM, edward wilson
<edward.wilson2601 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have used ovs-benchmark and found drastic change everytime I run the
> command with same parameter and environment.
>
> For comparing between older and latest version of OVS,
> With older version over 10 iterations average rate with timeout 5 comes out
> to be 2680.92 whereas on latest OVS version it is 3826.34 .It is just 1.4
> times
> With older version over 10 iterations average rate with timeout 1 comes out
> to be 3907.97 whereas on latest OVS version it is 5245.10 .It is just 1.3
> times
>
> Please confirm how this performance is triple as this is mentioned that flow
> setup performance is tripled in latest version ?
>
> Is ovs-benchmak ok for this measurement?
> How can we ensure tripled performance in latest vesion of OVS?

ovs-benchmark is a synthetic benchmark.  If you are concerned about
the impact of performance changes in newer releases you should test
with your workloads.



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