[Openstack-operators] OpenvSwitch Latency issues

Jacob Godin jacobgodin at gmail.com
Fri Oct 25 14:04:11 UTC 2013


Do we know if 1.11 will be pushed into the Havana Ubuntu Cloud Archive?


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Édouard Thuleau <thuleau at gmail.com> wrote:

> And the OVS release 1.11 fixes performance issues as discuss here :
> http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@openvswitch.org/msg07574.html
>
> Édouard.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Jacob Godin <jacobgodin at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Darragh,
>>
>> Thanks for the input! I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with the latest 3.5.0 kernel
>> from stable with Grizzly.
>>
>> I followed a suggestion to upgrade OVS from stable to the latest Havana
>> release under the Cloud Archive. This moved me from 1.4.0 -> 1.10.2. The
>> migration was relatively seamless, and has fixed the issue.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this was a bug in 1.4.0 (which maybe the veth setting
>> would have fixed), however the upgrade has completely fixed my latency
>> issues.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Darragh O'Reilly <
>> dara2002-openstack at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Jacob,
>>>
>>> what operating and kernel are you using?
>>> what ovs datapath (dpkg -l openv\*) ?
>>> what version of openstack?
>>>
>>> Maybe it is an issue getting in and/or out of the router namespace. Try
>>> running tcpdump on the qr-xxxxxx-xx (from namespace) and the physical
>>> interface in br-ex (from root namespace), and do a ping from namespace to
>>> outside. Then compare the timestamps on the two tcpdumps. Then try a ping
>>> from outside to in.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jame Page reported a router performance issue recently, and setting
>>> ovs_use_veth=true somehow fixed it.
>>>
>>> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/2013-October/001811.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Re, Darragh.
>>>
>>>
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