On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com> wrote: > With this commit, ovs by default will create one pmd thread > for each numa node and pin the pmd thread to available cpu > core on the numa node. > > NON_PMD_CORE_ID (currently 0) is used to reserve a particular > cpu core for the I/O of all non-pmd threads. No pmd thread > can be pinned to this reserved core. > > As side-effects of this commit: > > - pmd thread will not be created, if there is no dpdk interface > from the corresponding numa node added to ovs. > > - the exact-match cache for non-pmd threads is removed from > 'struct dp_netdev'. Instead, all non-pmd threads will use > the exact-match cache defined in the 'struct dp_netdev_pmd_thread' > for NON_PMD_CORE_ID. > > - the rx packet processing functions are refactored to use > 'struct dp_netdev_pmd_thread' as input. > > - the 'netdev_send()' function will be called with the proper > queue id. > > - both pmd and non-pmd threads can call the dpif_netdev_execute(). > so, use a per-thread key to help recognize the calling thread. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com>
Looks good. Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
