[ovs-discuss] Physical interface vs interface under OVS bridge Performance/throughput impact
Ben Pfaff
blp at ovn.org
Thu Nov 15 14:48:43 UTC 2018
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 05:54:52PM +0000, Srinivas via discuss wrote:
> Hello all,Lets say i have a physical interface eth0 that i move under
> a ovs-bridge br0.
> a) What would the performance / throughput impact as a result of the
> physical interface being part of the ovs bridge now?The reason i ask
> is there is probably a extra hop the packet will have to take now to
> go from the physical interface through the ovs stack before it
> reaches the ip on the bridge now.
There is definitely an extra hop and extra cost. The difference is
usually minimal.
> b ) Would this performance impact be more if i run ovs as a plain L2
> learning switch i.e no openflow rules configured.
No. (Why would running OVS in the simplest way increase the performance
cost?)
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