[ovs-discuss] Performance of Openvswitch

[Ben Pfaff]

"ovs-ofctl"?  If you're adding flows one at a time, then I suggest
adding multiple flows in one cmomand.  That ought to be faster.

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:11:58AM +0530, Bhattiprolu RaviKumar wrote:
> Ben,
>   We are using command line using ovs-ovctl command.
> 
> regards,
> Ravi
> 
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 05:30:30PM +0530, Bhattiprolu RaviKumar wrote:
> > > What is the typical number of flows (Openflow) that can be added using
> > > "ovs-ovctl add-flow" on a xeon based server? When I run this command in a
> > > script on Xeon based server with 8GB memory, I am geeting about 250
> > > flows/second. Is it the expected rate?
> >
> > That seems slow.  What method are you using to add flows?
> >