"Year"? "Possibly"? I have self doubt but not to that level. On Jun 26, 2013 8:54 PM, "Ethan Jackson" <et...@nicira.com> wrote:
> > When would you send the patches on creating threads in your plan? > > It's a massive project, so expect to see a lot of work in this area > for quite some time. It's safe to bet that we'll have a basic multi > threading implementation within the next year or so, possibly sooner. > > Ethan > > > > > On 2013/6/27 10:39, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >> The patches as sent don't create any threads. That's future work, for > as-yet unposted patches. > >> > >> On Jun 26, 2013 7:24 PM, "jerry" <jerry.lili...@huawei.com <mailto: > jerry.lili...@huawei.com>> wrote: > >> > >> Thanks for your quickly reply. > >> > >> I have downloaded the codes of ovs-reviews-thread in your "reviews" > repository and doing some test on new patches. > >> > >> In my test, the multithreaded feature doesn't work and there is no > change on ovs-vswitchd threads. Some results of executing "ps -ef | grep > ovs" as follows: > >> > >> linux-kKoZfU:/mnt/sdb/ovs-reviews-threads # ps -ef |grep ovs > >> root 24039 1 0 09:27 ? 00:00:00 ovsdb-server > /usr/local/etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db > --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock > --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options --pidfile --detach --log-file > >> root 24042 1 0 09:27 ? 00:00:00 ovs-vswitchd > unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock --pidfile --detach --log-file > >> root 24043 24042 0 09:27 ? 00:00:00 ovs-vswitchd: > worker process for pid 24042 > >> > >> Then I tried to found threads in procfs info of ovs-vswitchd > process with pid 24042. The result of executing "ls /proc/24042/task/" as > follows: > >> > >> linux-kKoZfU:/mnt/sdb/llj/ovs-reviews-threads # ls -l > /proc/24042/task/ > >> total 0 > >> dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Jun 27 09:30 24042 > >> > >> I can't find any place in code where the added function > xpthread_create() is called. To make ovs multithreaded, So I expect data > structures added in new patches to be used by existing code in the > repository. > >> > >> Would you like to share some thoughts on that test results? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Jerry > >> > >> On 2013/6/26 23:32, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:46:38PM +0800, jerry wrote: > >> >> I noticed that you have sent out 01~09 of 11 patches on files > named > >> >> ovs-thread.c and ovs-thread.h. > >> > > >> > I sent all of them. > >> > > >> >> But I can't find the last two patch of them. > >> > > >> > Look in patchwork or in my "reviews" repository: > >> > https://github.com/blp/ovs-reviews/branches > >> > > >> >> Also the defined functions and data structures are not used in > latest > >> >> open vswitch codes from git repository. > >> > > >> > Why would you expect data structures added in new patches to be > used by > >> > existing code in the repository? > >> > > >> >> Is your work to make ovs multi-threaded? What's the train of > thought > >> >> on the work? In my guess, maybe you separate the work of > ofproto run > >> >> or run_fast from ovs-vswitchd process and run the work as a > single > >> >> thread. Is that right? > >> > > >> > That's roughly the idea. > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev mailing list > > dev@openvswitch.org > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >
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