On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 09:25 +0100, antonio.fische...@intel.com wrote:
> Update documentation with the new commands to Read/Write
> ConnTracker configuration parameters.
>
> CC: Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com>
> CC: Darrell Ball <dlu...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Fischetti <antonio.fische...@intel.com>
One nit below, but otherwise LGTM.
Acked-by: Stephen Finucane <step...@that.guru>
> ---
> Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> lib/dpctl.man | 10 ++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> index bb69ae5..a1f259c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> @@ -568,6 +568,31 @@ not needed i.e. jumbo frames are not needed, it can be
> forced off by adding
> chains of descriptors it will make more individual virtio descriptors
> available
> for rx to the guest using dpdkvhost ports and this can improve performance.
>
> +Connection Tracker
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +When the Connection Tracker is enabled the overall performance can be deeply
> +affected, even with simple firewall rules and with stateless protocols like
> +UDP. In order to find a better tuning, commands like
> +
> +::
> +
> + $ ovs-appctl dpctl/ct-get-glbl-cfg <cfg param>
> + $ ovs-appctl dpctl/ct-set-glbl-cfg <cfg param>=<value>
> +
> +allow respectively to read the current value, or set a new value to a
> +configuration parameter.
> +For example, to reduce the impact of the Connection Tracker load on the
> +system performance, the maximum number of tracked connections can be
> +reduced.
> +
> +The available configuration parameters are:
> +
> +- maxconn: Maximum number of connections managed by the Connection Tracker
> + module. It's both readable and writeable.
> +- totconn: Total number of connections currently managed by the Connection
> + Tracker module. Readable only.
nit: This section would probably read better as a definition list
``maxconn``
Maximum number of connections...
``totconn``
Total number of connections...
> +
> Limitations
> ------------
>
> diff --git a/lib/dpctl.man b/lib/dpctl.man
> index 675fe5a..64ad105 100644
> --- a/lib/dpctl.man
> +++ b/lib/dpctl.man
> @@ -235,3 +235,13 @@ For each ConnTracker bucket, displays the number of
> connections used
> by \fIdp\fR.
> If \fBgt=\fIThreshold\fR is specified, bucket numbers are displayed when
> the number of connections in a bucket is greater than \fIThreshold\fR.
> +.
> +.TP
> +\*(DX\fBct\-get\-glbl\-cfg\fR [\fIdp\fR] \fBparam\fR
> +Read the current value of the specified ConnTracker parameter used
> +by \fIdp\fR.
> +.
> +.TP
> +\*(DX\fBct\-set\-glbl\-cfg\fR [\fIdp\fR] \fBparam=\fI..\fR
> +Set a value to the specified ConnTracker parameter used
> +by \fIdp\fR.
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