On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 03:11:40PM -0500, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Simon Horman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have observed high rates of packet loss when using OVS to "forward" > > packets to a GRE or VXNET port. This packet loss does not occur to > > anywhere near the same extent when OVS is used to "forward" packets to > > a port that does not use tunnelling. > > Can you tell specifically where the packets are getting dropped? When > encapsulating 64-byte packets the tunnel overhead is nearly as large > as the payload, so that could account for additional stress.
Hi Jesse, Good point with regards to overhead, I had not considered that. I haven't isolated where the packet loss is occurring, other than that the packets are received by the machine running OVS and their encapsulated version is not transmitted. I'll see if I can narrow things down. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
