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• 2017-01-01

  OVS Deep Dive 3: Datapath

  1. DatapathDatapath is the forwarding plane of OVS. Initially, it is implemented as akernel module, and kept as small as possible. Apart from the datapath,other components are implemented in userspace, and have little dependences withthe underlying systems. That mean...

• 2017-01-01

  OVS Deep Dive 2: OVSDB

  In this OVS Deep Dive series,I will walk through the Open vSwtich source code to look into the core designsand implementations of OVS. The code is based on ovs 2.6.1.1. OVSDB Overviewovsdb-server provides RPC interfaces to one or more OpenvSwitch databases (OVSDBs). ...

• 2016-12-31

  OVS Deep Dive 1: vswitchd

  In this OVS Deep Dive series,I will walk through the Open vSwtich source code to look into the core designsand implementations of OVS. The code is based on ovs 2.6.1.1. vswitchd OverviewFig.1. OVS Architecture (image source NSRC[1])As depicted in Fig.1, ovs-vswitchd ...

• 2016-12-31

  OVS Deep Dive 0: Overview

  In this OVS Deep Dive series,I will walk through the Open vSwtich source code to look into the core designsand implementations of OVS. The code is based on ovs 2.6.1.1. WHY OVSThe official doc WHY Open vSwitchdescribes how OVS emerges and what problems it aims at sol...