[Openstack] Cells: *how* experimental?

Clint Byrum clint at fewbar.com
Fri Jan 29 18:32:12 UTC 2016


Excerpts from Rick Jones's message of 2016-01-29 09:41:05 -0800:
> On 01/29/2016 01:35 AM, Hinds, Luke (Nokia - GB/Bristol) wrote:
> > I am also genuinely intrigued about this. Are your test results publically available Clint?
> 
> And does this simulation happen to include the effect of WAN latency?-)
> 

Negative. :)

> That the control plane (aggregate?) bandwidth for 1000 simulated nodes 
> is "just" 100 Mbit/s is good, but I suspect it is rather "chatty" and as 
> Clint somewhat warned, trying to run that across a WAN with non-trivial 
> latency may be "interesting."
> 

It's not something I'd try lightly. However, we do want to try it over
city-wide WAN links (so, 20 miles or so), which shouldn't add too much
latency, but certainly isn't _free_.




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