On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:45:25AM -0400, Sukhbir Singh wrote: > I am resuming this thread from the earlier discussion about switch > startup time. I decided to remove Mininet from the picture, just to > check how much time it takes for OVS to start a switch. To measure this, > I created a switch with: > > ovs-vsctl add-br s1 -- set Bridge s1 > other_config:datapath-id=0000000000000001 -- set-fail-mode s1 secure -- > add-port s1 s1-eth1 -- set Interface s1-eth1 ofport_request=1 -- > add-port s1 s1-eth2 -- set Interface s1-eth2 ofport_request=2 -- > set-controller s1 tcp:127.0.0.1:6633 ptcp:6634 -- set bridge s1 > other-config:disable-in-band=true > > (Wrapped) > > I repeated this with the relevant changes to datapath_id, etc., for up > to 200 switches. Here are the start up times: > > number of switches | time to start (seconds) > 5 | .6 > 25 | 5 > 50 | 18 > 100 | 67 > 200 | 264
What did you actually measure? The "ovs-vsctl" program run? Something else? How long does it take if you use "ovs-vsctl --no-wait"? _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
