[ovs-discuss] how to let ovs kernel supports metering

Justin Pettit jpettit at ovn.org
Mon Apr 30 17:12:40 UTC 2018


> On Apr 27, 2018, at 2:27 AM, ali fahmy via discuss <ovs-discuss at openvswitch.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on ovs-kernel 2.8.0 with mininet and I would like to stay with kernel version of OVS and not going to the userspace as ovs-userspace has some performance issues, although it supports the metering feature. 
> 
> Therefore I would like to ask how can I let ovs-kernel to support metering feature? or other way to let support it in a away of tc in linux and ovs-kernel?

Meter support was added to the kernel after we branched for the 2.9 release.  It will be part of 2.10, which will be released around September.  If you want to try it out now, you could try the master branch.

--Justin




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