[dpdk-dev] [ovs-discuss] vswitches performance comparison

[Gray, Mark D]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Jun
> Xiao
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 7:01 PM
> To: discuss; dev
> Subject: [ovs-discuss] vswitches performance comparison
> 
> After CloudNetEngine vswitch technical preview is launched, we received
> quite a few queries on vswitches performance comparison, but we cannot
> simply give a  test result on our platform because performance varies on
> different H/Ws and different workloads, and that's why we encourage you to
> try the evaluation package to get real data on your setup.
> 
> Anyway, we share a little more performance data on our H/W which is a
> comparison  among native kernel OVS/OVS-DPDK/CNE vswitch under the
> most common workload:
> concurrent bi-directional TCP traffics cross hosts, and hope you can have a
> rough idea.
> http://www.cloudnetengine.com/weblog/2015/07/22/vswitches-
> performance-comparison/

I think there is an issue with you methodology. ovs-dpdk performance should be
significantly higher than kernel ovs.

> 
> Thanks,
> Jun
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