> From: Jarno Rajahalme [mailto:ja...@ovn.org] > Sent: Friday, 29 July, 2016 20:38 > > > Twice the memory of the steady state footprint would still be a significant > burden, in particular if that memory would have to reside on hugepages that > are statically reserved for ovs-vswitchd. I must say I haven't fully > understood > which part of the OVS data structures are actually allocated from hugepage > memory when running OVS with DPDK netdev datapath. Can you clarify this? > > > Not an expert on huge pages myself, but I asked around and was told DPDK use > of huge pages does not affect the size of pages used for the rest of OVS > userspace.
I have seen that ofproto data structures are not allocated from hugepage memory. So that should be OK. > I have just posted a new patch series that implements both group support and > also reduces the memory burden of bundle message storage and execution. I > have not tested how much this helps, and would be happy if you could repeat > your testing with the new patch series. > > Either way, the patch series should make it's way to OVS 2.6. Thanks a lot for that effort. I have seen that it is on master already. We will give the new bundle implementation a try, also including groups, and report the numbers. BR, Jan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
