[ovs-discuss] Help on QoS Enhancement of OVS

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 01:05:34PM +0530, Monica Gawas wrote:
>           I  am  part  of  a  group of students, and  we  are  planning to  do our  final year  project  in  open  source.
> We would love to contribute to the OVS community, so we are thinking of doing something to improve the QoS.
>           After  reading  the  Documentation,  FAQs,  and  other  stuff on  openvswitch.org and  other sources,  we 
> found that  QoS is at its  infancy in OVS.  OVS can rate limit the  communication, by  Interface Rate Limiting or
> Port QoS Policy.
>           We have understood how QoS works in OVS, but we can't come up with a nice project idea to improve it.
> We are a group of 5, and the development time avaliable is 6-8 months. We would be equally happy to work in
> the user level or kernel level, as long as it makes a significant improvement in OVS. 

What do you see as the most important deficiency?