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Message-ID: <20111130134028.GA3226@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:40:28 +0800 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: jhs@...atatu.com Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, dev@...nvswitch.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>, John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> Subject: Re: Integration of Open vSwitch On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 08:14:51AM -0500, jamal wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 15:00 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > The other factor I considered is scalability. The OVS code as is > > is not really friendly to SMP/NUMA scalability (but as Eric pointed, > > neither is the classifier/action layer). > > Did you mean the qdisc funnel-to-interface part which Eric is hopefully > going to work on now that bql is in? classifier/action happens way > before that. I actually meant the scalability with adding/deleting flows, or in the case with qdiscs, filters. OVS is quite scalable on the fast-path, but when it comes to new flows, you have a bottleneck. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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