On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Jesse Gross <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Vijay Chander <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We are using the latest hot fixes with xencenter 6.0 including the one > > mentioned below. > > > > What we noticed was that the openvswitch was running in user mode (for > the > > default xencenter 6.0) > > installation ! > > Why do you say that? I don't believe that is true; even when run in > kernel mode, OVS has both userspace and kernel components. > What I meant was there was no openvswitch kernel module installed ! and ovs-vswitchd in uspace was pegged at 99% while running traffic. When we made sure that openvswitch_mod (KLM) was installed, then we see netback/ kernel threads using CPU which is what we were expecting. > > We manually pulled in ovs sources and installed it as kernel module and > > things are much > > better now. > > > > Can someone pls point me to a high level architecture of the ovs data > path ? > > Looking at the > > ovs-1.3 code to understand this meanwhile :) > > There's some information in the porting guide: > http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob;f=PORTING Thanks for the pointer.
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