[ovs-discuss] Number of flows in a table

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Mon Oct 21 06:45:33 UTC 2013


Please don't drop the list, either.  :-)

Do you have more than 4 billion flows?

You can limit the number of flows as described in the "Flow_Table" table in ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.

--Justin


On Oct 20, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Rahul arora <rahul1991.arora at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Justin
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Then what is the use of  uint32_t max_entries in the openvswitch.Can i limit the number of flows in a table?
> 
> Regards
> Rahul Arora
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> In the future, please don't cross-post.  I'm replying to both lists, since you started it in two locations, though.
> 
> There is no maximum, it's only constrained by memory.  Each rule takes a few hundred bytes in memory, and we've tested it to hundreds of thousands of rules.
> 
> --Justin
> 
> 
> On Oct 20, 2013, at 11:25 PM, Rahul arora <rahul1991.arora at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> >
> > I want to know the maximum number of flows we can push in a openvswitch table.
> >
> > Please help me regarding this.
> >
> > ..
> > Rahul Arora
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