[ovs-discuss] ovs-docker: why need to use veth pair instead of internal port?

[Flavio Leitner]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:28:19AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> >>
> >
> > Make sense. So it seems not worth the effort of replacing veth pairs
> > by internal ports, if there is no or little performance penalty,
> > according to your test results.
> I have personally not done any testing, so I have heard conflicting reports.
> There are a couple of blog entries which show that OVS internal
> devices perform a lot better.
> http://www.opencloudblog.com/?p=96

I blogged my analysis and results here:
http://flavioleitner.blogspot.com.br/2015/05/open-vswitch-internal-ports-and-linux.html

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