[ovs-discuss] kernel panic under heavy receive load

[Chris Dunlop]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 08:31:46PM -0500, Xu (Simon) Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Chris Dunlop <chris at onthe.net.au> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 06:06:25PM -0500, Xu (Simon) Chen wrote:
> > > On Friday, February 27, 2015, Chris Dunlop <chris at onthe.net.au> wrote:
> > > > Simon, are you able to try your test running direct hypervisor
> > > > to hypervisor?
> > >
> > > Nope...  I have only seen this between VMs. After repeated tests, it has
> > > got worse that an iperf run would almost immediately trigger a crash.
> >
> > Was this trying the hypervisor to hypervisor testing via the OVS tunnel?
> 
> VM-to-VM over VXLAN tunnel built by OVS.

Is it possible to test hypervisor to hypervisor via the tunnel
(i.e. without VMs) by running your test between IPs on the OVS
switches?