[ovs-discuss] Group table with different split weight

Jiaqi Zheng jiaqi369 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 19:26:20 UTC 2016


Also I know the split weight is an integer. I have three out ports. If I
set split weight to 1, 1 and 1 or I set split weight to 2, 2 and 2, what is
the difference ? It is the same, right ? The group will normalize them
automatically ?

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:05:03PM -0500, Jiaqi Zheng wrote:
> > I only have three flow and the group table with three outport is
> configured
> > with the same split weight :
> > Flow 1:  source mac: 10.0.0.1 destination mac: 10.0.0.2
> > Flow 2:  source mac: 10.0.0.1 destination mac: 10.0.0.3
> > Flow 3:  source mac: 10.0.0.1 destination mac: 10.0.0.4
> >
> > You mean the packets will evenly when the number of flows are large ?
>
> Yes.  Hashing is probabilistic.
>
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