commands provide similar functionality that is scoped by the bridge.
+Quality of Service (QoS)
+------------------------
+
+Q: How do I configure Quality of Service (QoS)?
+
+A: Suppose that you want to set up bridge br0 connected to physical
+ Ethernet port eth0 (a 1 Gbps device) and virtual machine interfaces
+ vif1.0 and vif2.0, and that you want to limit traffic from vif1.0
+ to eth0 to 10 Mbps and from vif2.0 to eth0 to 20 Mbps. Then, you
+ could configure the bridge this way:
+
+ ovs-vsctl -- \
+ add-br br0 -- \
+ add-port br0 eth0 -- \
+ add-port br0 vif1.0 -- set interface vif1.0 ofport_request=5 -- \
+ add-port br0 vif2.0 -- set interface vif2.0 ofport_request=6 -- \
+ set port eth0 qos=@newqos -- \
+ --id=@newqos create qos type=linux-htb \
+ other-config:max-rate=1000000000 \
+ queues:123=@vif10queue \
+ queues:234=@vif20queue -- \
+ --id=@vif10queue create queue other-config:max-rate=10000000 -- \
+ --id=@vif20queue create queue other-config:max-rate=20000000
+
+ At this point, bridge br0 is configured with the ports and eth0 is
+ configured with the queues that you need for QoS, but nothing is
+ actually directing packets from vif1.0 or vif2.0 to the queues that
+ we have set up for them. That means that all of the packets to
+ eth0 are going to the "default queue", which is not what we want.
+
+ We use OpenFlow to direct packets from vif1.0 and vif2.0 to the
+ queues reserved for them:
+
+ ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 in_port=5,actions=set_queue:123,normal
+ ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 in_port=6,actions=set_queue:234,normal
+
+ Each of the above flows matches on the input port, sets up the
+ appropriate queue (123 for vif1.0, 234 for vif2.0), and then
+ executes the "normal" action, which performs the same switching
+ that Open vSwitch would have done without any OpenFlow flows being
+ present. (We know that vif1.0 and vif2.0 have OpenFlow port
+ numbers 5 and 6, respectively, because we set their ofport_request
+ columns above. If we had not done that, then we would have needed
+ to find out their port numbers before setting up these flows.)
+
+ Now traffic going from vif1.0 or vif2.0 to eth0 should be
+ rate-limited.
+
+ By the way, if you delete the bridge created by the above commands,
+ with:
+
+ ovs-vsctl del-br br0
+
+ then that will leave one unreferenced QoS record and two
+ unreferenced Queue records in the Open vSwich database. One way to
+ clear them out, assuming you don't have other QoS or Queue records
+ that you want to keep, is:
+
+ ovs-vsctl -- --all destroy QoS -- --all destroy Queue
+
+Q: I configured Quality of Service (QoS) in my OpenFlow network by
+ adding records to the QoS and Queue table, but the results aren't
+ what I expect.
+
+A: Did you install OpenFlow flows that use your queues? This is the
+ primary way to tell Open vSwitch which queues you want to use. If
+ you don't do this, then the default queue will be used, which will
+ probably not have the effect you want.
+
+ Refer to the previous question for an example.
+
+Q: I configured QoS, correctly, but my measurements show that it isn't
+ working as well as I expect.
+
+A: With the Linux kernel, the Open vSwitch implementation of QoS has
+ two aspects:
+
+ - Open vSwitch configures a subset of Linux kernel QoS
+ features, according to what is in OVSDB. It is possible that
+ this code has bugs. If you believe that this is so, then you
+ can configure the Linux traffic control (QoS) stack directly
+ with the "tc" program. If you get better results that way,
+ you can send a detailed bug report to bugs@openvswitch.org.
+
+ It is certain that Open vSwitch cannot configure every Linux
+ kernel QoS feature. If you need some feature that OVS cannot
+ configure, then you can also use "tc" directly (or add that
+ feature to OVS).
+
+ - The Open vSwitch implementation of OpenFlow allows flows to
+ be directed to particular queues. This is pretty simple and
+ unlikely to have serious bugs at this point.
+
+ However, most problems with QoS on Linux are not bugs in Open
+ vSwitch at all. They tend to be either configuration errors
+ (please see the earlier questions in this section) or issues with
+ the traffic control (QoS) stack in Linux. The Open vSwitch
+ developers are not experts on Linux traffic control. We suggest
+ that, if you believe you are encountering a problem with Linux
+ traffic control, that you consult the tc manpages (e.g. tc(8),
+ tc-htb(8), tc-hfsc(8)), web resources (e.g. http://lartc.org/), or
+ mailing lists (e.g. http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#netdev).
+
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