One last question, is there any way to measure how many flows are installed
in a flow table without using any script to count the output of the
ovs-ofctl dump-flows command?becase while it's counting it adds some delay
and the results are not exact.

Thank you.

2011/5/25 Jose Luis Franco Arza <[email protected]>

> Yes, now the performance it's much better, thank you!at least now it
> installs all the flows thuogh when they are installed then it starts to lose
> some flows but I guess that this is because of the idel timeout. I will try
> it increasing it to check if is there still loss of flows.
> Thanks again,
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jose
>
>
> 2011/5/25 Jose Luis Franco Arza <[email protected]>
>
>> Thank you very much Ben, I will try it now and I will let you know
>>
>>
>> 2011/5/25 Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
>>
>>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:19:53PM +0200, Jose Luis Franco Arza wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > That looks like OFPET_BAD_REQUEST, OFPBRC_BUFFER_UNKNOWN "Specified
>>> > > buffer does not exist".  I imagine that on the switch side you got a
>>> > > bunch of "cookie mismatch" log messages.
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> > Exactly, in the openvswitch I receive a lot of cookie mismatch messages
>>> and
>>> > also some other log message that I don't understand at all (I read that
>>> they
>>> > were used for debuggin openvswitch so I just ignore them)
>>>
>>> You should be able to find a line like this in ofproto/connmgr.c in
>>> Open vSwitch:
>>>    ofconn->pktbuf = pktbuf_create();
>>>
>>> If you delete that line, do you see better performance?  If so, then
>>> perhaps it's time to work on making OVS suppress packet buffering in
>>> overload conditions, or maybe to just drop support entirely.
>>>
>>> We don't see this problem at Nicira because our controllers set up
>>> flows proactively, not reactively.
>>>
>>
>>
>
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