On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Daniel Tiron <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > During my research I did some performance tests. In some of your paper > on ovs I read that "Open vSwitch is almost as fast as the native > bridge". Well in my environment ovs beats the Linux Bridge [1]. > > Do you have any explanation why Open vSwitch, with all it features, is > faster than the "simple" Bridge? > > My setup is: > - Host: > o kernel 2.6.36.1 > o ovs 1.1.0pre2 > o one bridge > - 2 guests: > o kernel 2.6.36.2 > o QEMU 0.12.4 > o TAP interface (attached to bridge) > - measurement > o iperf > o 15 runs > o 5 minutes each
I have some scripts that automate some testing here: https://github.com/deshantm/Open-vSwitch-Testing They may need to be dusted off a bit, but they do all the basics needed for the netPIPE graphs that are similar to the ones in the paper and also my dissertation [1]. Hope they help. Thanks, Todd [1] https://github.com/deshantm/Rapid-Recovery-Desktop-Testing, http://todddeshane.net/phd _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
