[ovs-discuss] max mega flow 64k per pmd or per dpcls?

Hui Xiang xianghuir at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 01:43:48 UTC 2017


Your help was greatly appreciated, thanks Bodireddy.

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Bodireddy, Bhanuprakash <
bhanuprakash.bodireddy at intel.com> wrote:

> >>What is your use case(s) ?
> >>My usecase might be setup a VBRAS VNF with OVS-DPDK as an NFV normal
> >>case, and it requires a good performance, however, OVS-DPDK seems still
> >not
> >>reach its needs compared with  hardware offloading, we are evaluating VPP
> >as
> >>well,
> >As you mentioned VPP here, It's worth looking at the benchmarks that were
> >carried comparing
> >OvS and VPP for L3-VPN use case by Intel, Ericsson and was presented in
> OvS
> >Fall conference.
> >The slides can be found @
> >http://openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2016/8/1400-gray.pdf.
> >In above pdf page 12, why does classifier showed a constant throughput
> with
> >increasing concurrent L4 flows? shouldn't the performance get degradation
> >with more subtable look up as you mentioned.
>
> You raised a good point. The reason being the 'sorted subtable ranking'
> implementation in 2.7 release.
> With this we will have the subtable vector sorted by frequency of hits and
> this reduces the number of subtable lookups.
> That is the reason why I asked for the ' avg. subtable lookups per hit:'
> number.
>
> I recommend watching the video of the presentation here
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxRcfn2x4eE , as the
> bottlenecks you are referring in this thread are more or less similar to
> ones discussed at the conference.
>
> - Bhanuprakash.
>
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