Hello,

Thanks for the very fast replies.

I do understand the queues are per-port, sorry.
I was thinking about huge networks with dozens of slices, which one
isolated from the other. And to this end i was planning to use the
queuing system, but this limit of 8 queues would limit me to 8 slices,
i guess.

So does OpenVSwitch (software switches) don't have this limitation? So
they can use any way they want to classify packets into queues?


Peace!
Victor T.

On 26 April 2011 01:22, Dan Talayco <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Victor--
>
> First, note that queues are per-port. Second, can you be more specific about 
> what you're referring to for this limit? Is there a particular implementation 
> you're looking at? Many implementations use 8 queues as the queuing is 
> associated with the 3 priority bits in the VLAN tag (for example). I don't 
> believe there's an explicit limitation in the spec which requires that queues 
> be defined and configured externally, and only an opaque "queue ID" be used 
> to identify the queue for the enqueue action and stats-get operation within 
> the protocol.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Monday, April 25, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Victor Torres wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> As i was studying the queue mechanisms of OpenFlow 1.0, i found out
>> that there can be a Max of 8 queues on a single switch, is that true?
>> Are there any workarounds for this?
>> Anyone knows if OpenVSwitch has the same limitation (don't know if it
>> is a protocol issue, or implementation issue)?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Peace!
>> Victor T.
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