Thanks for your back Mike, I did some tests with ovs2.0 and the number of tcp 
connections up to 1 000 000 easily.
So if I understand well the deal is not in relation with vhost_net or it can 
have a link between them?

   http://i.imgur.com/kJJWtOk.png

s.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Dawson" <mike.daw...@cloudapt.com>
To: "Sahid Ferdjaoui" <sahid.ferdja...@cloudwatt.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 5:52:36 PM
Subject: Re: virtio: Large number of tcp connections, vhost_net seems to be a 
bottleneck


On 10/20/2013 4:04 AM, Sahid Ferdjaoui wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on create a large number of tcp connections on a guest;
> The environment is on OpenStack:
>
> Host (dedicated compute node):
>    OS/Kernel: Ubuntu/3.2
>    Cpus: 24
>    Mems: 128GB
>
> Guest (alone on the Host):
>    OS/Kernel: Ubuntu/3.2
>    Cpus: 4
>    Mems: 32GB
>
> Currently a guest can handle about 700 000 established connections, the cpus 
> are not loaded and 12giga of memory are used.
> I'm working to understand why I can go up...
>
> On my host, after several tests with different versions of openvswitch and 
> with linux bridge,
> It look like the process vhost_net is the only process loaded to 100% and it 
> seems vhost_net cannot use more than 1 cpu.
>
> I would like to get more informations about vhost_net and if there is a 
> solution to configure it to use more than 1 cpu?

Not sure if it is relevant in your case, but the newly-released Open 
vSwitch 2.0 is now multi-threaded:

http://openvswitch.org/releases/NEWS-2.0.0

@martin_casado said "This is a big deal. Multi-threading provides huge 
performance benefits on flow setup"

https://twitter.com/martin_casado/status/390384030488616960

If you give it a try, let us know.

- Mike

>
> Thanks a lot,
> s.
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