Performance Troubleshooting

Degradation in performance indicates that openvswitch may not be offloaded.

Verify offload state. Run:

            

            
# ovs-vsctl get Open_vSwitch . other_config:hw-offload
        

• If hw-offload = true – Fast Pass is configured (desired result)

• If hw-offload = false – Slow Pass is configured

If hw-offload = false :

• For RHEL/CentOS, run:

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  # ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:hw-offload=true;
  # systemctl restart openvswitch;
  # systemctl enable openvswitch;
          

• Ubuntu/Debian:

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  # ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:hw-offload=true;
  # /etc/init.d/openvswitch-switch restart