[ovs-discuss] [OVN][OpenStack] - scaling broadcast/multicast on tunnels without multicast support?

[Gal]

Hi Kevin,

Can you please share what kinds of broadcast/multicast traffic you usually see ? (That is not ARP or DHCP) 

Thanks,
Gal

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‫ב-13 בינו׳ 2016, בשעה 21:14, ‏‏Kevin Benton ‏<blak111 at gmail.com> כתב/ה:‬

> >Assuming I understood your statement correctly, with OVN, only one broadcast packet goes in the tunnel and then it gets replicated in the hypervisor. So the load is on the CPU instead of the network.
> 
> Not quite. What I'm referring to is when you have an overlay that spans multiple compute nodes. When a broadcast packet needs to be sent to all VMs in a network, it needs to be duplicated by the sending hypervisor onto a tunnel to every other compute node with a VM in the network.
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 13 January 2016 at 11:06, Kevin Benton <blak111 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I looked through the list and see that someone already asked about multicast addresses as a target for VXLAN tunnels[1]. Since it's not supported, what is the suggestion to prevent broadcast/multicast traffic in a tenant's network from wiping out the network due to the duplication cost?
>>> 
>>> This is something the current OVS plugin for Neutron in OpenStack suffers from and it seems OVN will have the same issue as far as I can tell.
>> 
>> Assuming I understood your statement correctly, with OVN, only one broadcast packet goes in the tunnel and then it gets replicated in the hypervisor. So the load is on the CPU instead of the network.
>>  
>>> 
>>> For example, without severely rate-limiting or completely blocking broadcast/multicast, a tenant network with 100 VMs on it can max out a 10 Gbps interface adapter with a 100 mbps broadcast/multicast stream.
>>> 
>>> 1. http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-December/019632.html
>>> 
>>> Cheers
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