[ovs-discuss] Performance of short-lived TCP sessions
McGarvey, Kevin
kmcGarvey at verisign.com
Mon Feb 3 20:32:12 UTC 2014
That's good news. I'll test it.
Kevin
On 2/3/14 3:30 PM, "Justin Pettit" <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:
>On 2/3/14, 12:17 PM, "McGarvey, Kevin" <kmcGarvey at verisign.com> wrote:
>
>>The TCP workload of a global DNS server consists of TCP sessions, each
>>with a single request and a response that is typically under 2KB, and
>>there is a very large number of source IPs. What level of performance,
>>expressed in terms of sessions per second,
>> would be expected from Open vSwitch with this type of workload?.
>
>It depends on the flow table. Starting in OVS 1.11, if you had a
>configuration that doesn't require matching the source IP or ephemeral TCP
>port, it should be possible to cache the flow in the kernel, which would
>yield very numbers.
>
>--Justin
>
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