I'm running the Click with Click OpenFlow element as openflow switch. I run the switches on different machines.
-- Minlan On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Rob Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the data Martin. > > Can you describe the switches used for this? Were they openvswitch? > I assume the switches were running on a different machine than the nox > instance, to avoid CPU contention? > > I've run similar numbers with the cbench utility that ships with > oflops: it simply emulates k switches and for each switch, tests the > number of packet_in/flow_mod responses a controller can produce, per > second. AFAICT, these should be basically the same numbers. > > Also, as a data point, the hardware switches we've tested are no where > near capable of producing that number of flow setups per second. They > generally support hundreds of flow setups per second, due to their > limited CPU. > > - Rob > . > > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Martin Casado <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Minlan recently did some performance analysis of Nox and has kindly agreed >> to let me post the results to the mailing list. For those who might be >> interested: >> >> #switch flows/sec (peak rate) >> 1 18K >> 2 29K >> 3 39K >> 4 59K >> 5 45K >> 6 50K >> >> This is roughly consistent with the numbers I've seen when doing similar >> tests. It is important to note that in general, multiple switches are >> required to saturate Nox. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nox-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev_noxrepo.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > nox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev_noxrepo.org > _______________________________________________ nox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev_noxrepo.org
