Re: [ovs-discuss] poor ovs-dpdk performance vs ovs

2018-11-16 Thread Ian Stokes
On 11/16/2018 6:52 PM, Robert Brooks wrote: Hi Tiago, you are correct, this is a virtualization environment. The tests numbers I am quoting are running directly on the hypervisor, rather than guests. My ultimate aim is to get good performance for guests talking over VXLAN. Using OvS I get

Re: [ovs-discuss] poor ovs-dpdk performance vs ovs

2018-11-16 Thread Robert Brooks
Hi Tiago, you are correct, this is a virtualization environment. The tests numbers I am quoting are running directly on the hypervisor, rather than guests. My ultimate aim is to get good performance for guests talking over VXLAN. Using OvS I get around 5Gb/s between guests talking over VXLAN and

Re: [ovs-discuss] poor ovs-dpdk performance vs ovs

2018-11-16 Thread Lam, Tiago
Hi, I have a couple of questions, but at a first glance this seems to be a result of OvS-DPDK not yet supporting TSO, while the Kernel does. We are in the works of addressing that. The numbers you are reporting, ~9.4 Gbps vs ~5.5 Gbps are very similar to the ones we have been getting with and