Regards _Sugesh
> -----Original Message----- > From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 8:56 AM > To: Chandran, Sugesh <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 6/8] netdev-dpdk: retry with queue action > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 07:42:19AM +0000, Chandran, Sugesh wrote: > > > > > > Regards > > _Sugesh > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:ovs-dev- > > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Yuanhan Liu > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 10:23 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 6/8] netdev-dpdk: retry with queue > > > action > > > > > > From: Finn Christensen <[email protected]> > > > > > > AFAIK, most (if not all) NICs (including Mellanox and Intel) do not > > > support a pure MARK action. It's required to be used together with > > > some other actions, like QUEUE. > > > > > > To workaround it, retry with a queue action when first try failed. > > [Sugesh] This means a NIC that doesn't support pure MARK, will do > > every flow install twice no matter how many times the flow install failed > before for the same reason. > > The retry can be avoided if we know what a port/NIC can support. It > > leads to a need of feature discovery of a NIC at the init time. > > I believe the reply I made to Simon answered all questions you asked above. [Sugesh] Apologies , as I didn't see some of comments and its replies. Thank you Yuanhan. Hope you will be working on some probing mechanism. I am interested to know how its going to looks like > > --yliu _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
