On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Ryan Young <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > I'm a newbie to openflow/ovs, and I have some questions regarding the > hardware performance implementing Openflow. > I got some experimental data below from some scientific > reports(http://staff.science.uva.nl/~delaat/rp/2011-2012/p18/report.pdf, et > al): > (Varing with different platforms, mainly focuses on the commercial switches) > The maximum number of flows that can be installed in the flow table is > around 100k; > The time cost for installing single flow is about 1~6ms which means that > intalling millions of flows may cost hundreds seconds. > Does it means that recent openflow switches are still not applicable for the > arduous cases of the large scale network, e.g the load balancing service for > the web server cluster since the concurrent traffic may reach millions > requests per second, and the hardware performance above is seriously > unacceptable.
It entirely depends on the application, the design of the controller, and the hardware. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
