[Openstack-operators] Migration from openvswitch to linuxbridge

Robert van Leeuwen Robert.vanLeeuwen at spilgames.com
Wed Oct 1 05:56:43 UTC 2014


>> George Shuklin
> For high CPU usage for openvswitchd there is a simple solution: upgrade
> to anything like 1.11 or higher. There is a huge problem with ovs 1.4,
> 1.9, 1.10 - they suck at real-world network activity. All new version
> (2.0, 2.1) are much better and works great.

Well no, after updating to 2.1 we actually have increased openvswitch cpu consumption on some machines.

> You can find more detail in google with keyword 'megaflow ovs'.
Is there any magic button that needs to be pressed for this to have effect?




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