New Approach to OVN Datapath Performance, with Jun Xiao from CloudNetEngine

Jun Xiao is the founder and CTO of CloudNetEngine, which is focused on innovating a next generation “engine” for cloud virtual networking. He has over 15 years experience in VMware, Huawei, Lucent, Sun Microsystem, and other companies. His system design experience ranges from low-level device drivers and network stacks to middleware and distributed systems. This episode is a talk that Jun gave at OpenStack Boston during the Open vSwitch Open Source Day on May 10, with the following abstract: Jun presents a new high-performance datapath for OVN. OVN has many advantages than other virtual networking solutions given its great architecture thus performant/extensible/scale, and it becomes the best virtual networking solution if you want to use OVS with openstack. In this presentation, Jun will show how to deploy openstack/OVN with yet another high performance OVS datapath, and deep dive on technical solutions addressing OVS datapaths outstanding issues. Jun will also give a live demo for the integration and present some performance benchmarks. Slides for this talk are available in PowerPoint and PDF formats. The PowerPoint version may be preferable because it preserves the animations. OVS Orbit is produced by Ben Pfaff. The intro music in this episode is Drive, featuring cdk and DarrylJ, copyright 2013, 2016 by Alex. The bumper music is Yeah Ant featuring Wired Ant and Javolenus, copyright 2013 by Speck. The outro music is Space Bazooka featuring Doxen Zsigmond, copyright 2013 by Kirkoid. All content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license.