From: Ben Pfaff Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:03:13 +0000 (-0800) Subject: FAQ: Explain how to add QoS features to Open vSwitch. X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?p=sliver-openvswitch.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=e6d29aa745ada638834f587748fd782e5c70ede0 FAQ: Explain how to add QoS features to Open vSwitch. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff --- diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index df7b6ef30..2508c8cdd 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -723,6 +723,19 @@ A: Did you install OpenFlow flows that use your queues? This is the Refer to the previous question for an example. +Q: I'd like to take advantage of some QoS feature that Open vSwitch + doesn't yet support. How do I do that? + +A: Open vSwitch does not implement QoS itself. Instead, it can + configure some, but not all, of the QoS features built into the + Linux kernel. If you need some QoS feature that OVS cannot + configure itself, then the first step is to figure out whether + Linux QoS supports that feature. If it does, then you can submit a + patch to support Open vSwitch configuration for that feature, or + you can use "tc" directly to configure the feature in Linux. (If + Linux QoS doesn't support the feature you want, then first you have + to add that support to Linux.) + Q: I configured QoS, correctly, but my measurements show that it isn't working as well as I expect.