[openstack-dev] [neutron] OpenFlow security groups (pre-benchmarking plan)

Kyle Mestery mestery at mestery.com
Wed Feb 25 14:51:34 UTC 2015


On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Miguel Ángel Ajo <majopela at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Wednesday, 25 de February de 2015 at 15:38, Kyle Mestery wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Miguel Ángel Ajo <majopela at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>  I’m writing a plan/script to benchmark OVS+OF(CT) vs
> OVS+LB+iptables+ipsets,
> so we can make sure there’s a real difference before jumping into any
> OpenFlow security group filters when we have connection tracking in OVS.
>
> The plan is to keep all of it in a single multicore host, and make all the
> measures
> within it, to make sure we just measure the difference due to the software
> layers.
>
> Suggestions or ideas on what to measure are welcome, there’s an initial
> draft here:
>
> https://github.com/mangelajo/ovs-experiments/tree/master/ovs-ct
>
> This is a good idea Miguel, thanks for taking this on! Might I suggest we
> add this document into the neutron tree once you feel it's ready? Having it
> exist there may make a lot of sense for people who want to understand your
> performance test setup and who may want to run it in the future.
>
>
> That’s actually a good idea, so we can use gerrit to review and gather
> comments.
> Where should I put the document?
>
> in /doc/source we have devref with it’s own index in rst.
>
> I think it makes sense to add a testing directory there perhaps. But
failing that, even having it in devref would be a good idea.


> Best,
> Miguel Ángel.
>
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