[ovs-discuss] OpenVSwitch latency issues

[Ben Pfaff]

How can I find out what version that is?  I am not familiar with how
OpenStack is distributed.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:16:11AM +0700, Chris wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> It looks like it's the one which comes with OpenStack:
> 
> # modinfo openvswitch
> filename:
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64/kernel/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.k
> o
> license:        GPL
> description:    Open vSwitch switching datapath
> srcversion:     993363C44DF474BD67B03CC
> depends:        vxlan
> vermagic:       2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp at nicira.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 22:45
> To: Chris
> Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVSwitch latency issues
> 
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 06:42:31PM +0700, Chris wrote:
> > We upgraded the ovs user space version to 2.3. 
> > The kernel module is still the shipped one: CentOS 6.5 Linux
> > 2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64
> 
> Linux 2.6.32 doesn't come with an openvswitch kernel module, so what version
> of the kernel module do you have?  Some performance improvements will only
> come with a sufficiently new kernel module.
> 
>