On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 02:23:56AM +0000, Li, Chen wrote: > > I'm working under openvswitch + Openstack, and everything works fine. > > When I run command "ip link", I can find : > 8: ovs-system: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN > link/ether 5e:d0:3a:8a:15:7b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > But, I can't find where this device actually work. > I wonder anyone can provide me some information about this ? > Why this device exist ? > What is it used for ? > Any performance/function affections ?
It's not used for anything, and not useful for anything. It is mostly historical. A Linux kernel Open vSwitch datapath needs to have a port named the same as the datapath. Open vSwitch needs one datapath, and it names it ovs-system, so there's a port with the same name, even though it doesn't get used for anything. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
