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List:       openvswitch-discuss
Subject:    [ovs-discuss] IPSec + openvswitch poor performance
From:       jpettit () nicira ! com (Justin Pettit)
Date:       2010-10-16 8:07:04
Message-ID: EAAAE3EA-A14B-456F-8AE4-9DA68F800A54 () nicira ! com
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On Oct 15, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Maciej Ga?kiewicz wrote:

> What is wrong with 4th test? Why the connection is so slow? Both tools uses 100% \
> cpu time during only this trial. My servers have i7-920 (2.67GHz). I have also \
> tried with Linux GRE tunnels (ip_gre). The results were the same. The last idea \
> which came to my mind was openvpn. I set up openvpn in bridge mode also on top of \
> IPSec. The results were only a little worse than the third trial. Any suggestions?

No, not yet.  We've also seen a bad interaction between IPsec and GRE when it comes \
to performance.  This is something we're planning to investigate in the next few \
weeks.  I'll follow-up on this thread when we know more.

--Justin


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