On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 01:12:49PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> On 16 July 2015 at 13:08, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:22:29AM -0700, Hao Wu wrote:
> >>    Yes, you are right. I find the bottleneck is tcprelay which only
> >> generates packets at 750Kpps. But even when I add more hosts to send
> >> packets in parallel, I can't get a higher generation rate. E.g., if I use
> >> only one host, tcpreplay sends packets at 300Kpps, while if I use 6 hosts,
> >> each tcpreplay sends packets at around 130Kpps and the total rate is still
> >> 750Kpps. How do you get a higher generation rate in your experiment? 
> >> Thanks.
> >
> > I think we used netperf.  I've never use tcpreplay so I don't have any
> > hints.
> 
> Even with netperf, you need to run several threads and depending on
> the test you may exhaust all CPU running netperf to generate the
> traffic before you start hitting OVS performance limits.

Right, the OVS paper mentions that we ran 400 netperf instances in
parallel.
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