[ovs-discuss] Packet drops with high rate of Packet_In

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Dec 4 18:16:02 UTC 2013


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 04:59:02PM +0100, Anton Matsiuk wrote:
> Is it possible that OVS becomes overloaded with high number of incoming
> packets and generate Packet_In messages not to all of them without logging
> it?

Yes.  Once the TCP window fills up between OVS and the controller, OVS
only queues 100 packet-ins and then discards any others that arrive
before the window opens again.



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