Re: [ovs-discuss] Physical interface vs interface under OVS bridge Performance/throughput impact

2018-11-15 Thread Grant Taylor via discuss
On 11/15/2018 07:48 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: No. (Why would running OVS in the simplest way increase the performance cost?) Is it possible that there's slightly more overhead in the algorithm(s) of the simple L2 learning functionality of the "NORMAL" action? Compared to simple rules that

Re: [ovs-discuss] Physical interface vs interface under OVS bridge Performance/throughput impact

2018-11-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:03:30AM -0700, Grant Taylor via discuss wrote: > On 11/15/2018 07:48 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >No. (Why would running OVS in the simplest way increase the performance > >cost?) > > Is it possible that there's slightly more overhead in the algorithm(s) of > the simple L2

Re: [ovs-discuss] Physical interface vs interface under OVS bridge Performance/throughput impact

2018-11-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 05:54:52PM +, Srinivas via discuss wrote: > Hello all,Lets say i have a physical interface eth0 that i move under > a ovs-bridge br0. > a) What would the performance / throughput impact as a result of the > physical interface being part of the ovs bridge now?The reason

[ovs-discuss] Physical interface vs interface under OVS bridge Performance/throughput impact

2018-11-14 Thread Srinivas via discuss
Hello all,Lets say i have a physical interface eth0 that i move under a ovs-bridge br0. a) What would the performance / throughput impact as a result of the physical interface being part of the ovs bridge now?The reason i ask is there is probably a extra hop the packet will have to take now to