[ovs-discuss] OVS Switch startup time

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Mar 31 22:36:25 UTC 2014


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 06:35:14PM -0400, Sukhbir Singh wrote:
> In Mininet, I am using OVSSwitch for creating the switches in a Mininet
> topology. I am using OVS 2.1.0 and there is no controller attached as I
> am setting up the flows manually.
> 
> I have a question about the switch startup time, which gets
> progressively slower as the number of switches increase. As a rough
> estimation, after about 200 switches, it takes 1-1.5 seconds to create a
> switch which is not horrible but I was hoping this would be parallized?

How are you doing it?



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