[ovs-discuss] Megaflows.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Nov 20 16:19:43 UTC 2014


On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 07:02:10PM +0400, Andrey Korolyov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Krist van Besien
> <Krist.vanBesien at cloudlynx.ch> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Looking for solutions to our performance problems I stumbled upon a
> > mention of "megaflows". However how you enable these is nowhere
> > indicated. (At least nowhere that google can find)
> > Can someone tell me how you use this feature?
> >
> > Krist
> 
> Megaflows are enabled by default since introduction, there is no need
> to enable them separately. You can disable them via ovs-appctl
> dpif/disable-megaflows to compare impact on your workload.

A little more information: OVS 1.11 and later support megaflows and must
be paired with a similarly new kernel module.



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