[dpdk-users] Poor performance when using OVS with DPDK

2020-06-30 Thread Vipul Ujawane
Dear all, I am observing a very low performance when running OVS-DPDK when compared to OVS running with the Kernel Datapath. I have OvS version 2.13.90 compiled from source with the latest stable DPDK v19.11.3 on a stable Debian system running kernel 4.19.0-9-amd64 (real version:4.19.118). I

Re: [dpdk-users] Poor performance when using OVS with DPDK

2020-06-29 Thread Vipul Ujawane
So, > You don't mention how many different flows you're using in the test. Don't be surprised as throughput drops when you move from 1,000 flows to 1,000,000 flows. We currently only have 1 flow, the basic packet forwarding rule. We used pktgen standard built-in packet generation without any pcap

Re: [dpdk-users] Poor performance when using OVS with DPDK

2020-06-26 Thread David Christensen
> Why don't you reserve any CPUs for OVS/DPDK or VM usage?  All > published > performance white papers recommend settings for CPU isolation like > this > Mellanox DPDK performance report: > > https://fast.dpdk.org/doc/perf/DPDK_19_08_Mellanox_NIC_performance_report.pdf

Re: [dpdk-users] Poor performance when using OVS with DPDK

2020-06-26 Thread Vipul Ujawane
On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 02:08 +0800, Vipul Ujawane wrote: > > > -- Forwarded message - > From: David Christensen > Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 02:03 > Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Poor performance when using OVS with DPDK > To: Vipul Ujawane , > > > > &g

Re: [dpdk-users] Poor performance when using OVS with DPDK

2020-06-25 Thread David Christensen
On 6/24/20 4:03 AM, Vipul Ujawane wrote: Dear all, I am observing a very low performance when running OVS-DPDK when compared to OVS running with the Kernel Datapath. I have OvS version 2.13.90 compiled from source with the latest stable DPDK v19.11.3 on a stable Debian system running kernel

[dpdk-users] Poor performance when using OVS with DPDK

2020-06-24 Thread Vipul Ujawane
Dear all, I am observing a very low performance when running OVS-DPDK when compared to OVS running with the Kernel Datapath. I have OvS version 2.13.90 compiled from source with the latest stable DPDK v19.11.3 on a stable Debian system running kernel 4.19.0-9-amd64 (real version:4.19.118). I