As Jesse mentioned in the follow-up post, doing pure software switching isn't going to scale well beyond a few ports on commodity PC-level hardware. The system referenced in the Pronto post is using a traditional switching ASIC and running OVS on the management CPU (a MIPS/PPC/ARM-type processor). The fast-path is still being handled by the switching ASIC, and the handling of the slow-path is being handled by OVS. The code in our current master branch was re-factored for just this purpose; OVS handles much of the management functions and then calls hooks into the switching ASIC to set up appropriate flows.
--Justin On Jun 26, 2011, at 1:43 AM, Guillaume FORTAINE wrote: > > Hello, > > Let me introduce myself : Guillaume FORTAINE, Cloudpreneur. > > I have read with interest the topic entitled "An OVS switch appliance?" : > > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-February/004804.html > > To quote : > > "Interested to hear your thoughts on this," > > > That's why, I would greatly appreciate to invite you to a further reading of > the blog post entitled "Announce OVS Support" : > > http://prontosystems.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/announce-ovs-support/ > > > Best Regards, > > Guillaume FORTAINE > [email protected] > +33(0)631.092.519 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
