using patch port instead of veth pair to improve network performance

Bug #1418823 reported by LiangChen
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Bug Description

Nova-docker's network uses ovs bridge and veth pair.
There is some performance problems with veth pair according to the following reference.

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/7857
https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/8277
https://github.com/docker/libcontainer/pull/193
http://www.opencloudblog.com/?p=386

Should we use patch port to improve network performance?

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LiangChen (hs-chen) wrote :

A pair of patch ports just use to connect two OpenvSwitch bridges which is conflict with security group feature, so I close it.

More info please see blueprint container-security-group-support

Changed in nova-docker:
status: New → Invalid
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