Consider it done :-)
I'll wait with a v9 until I have all review comments implemented.
Thanks, Jan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: O Mahony, Billy [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, 15 February, 2018 15:41
> To: Jan Scheurich <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; Stokes, Ian <[email protected]>; 
> [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v8 0/3] dpif-netdev: Detailed PMD performance metrics and 
> supervision
> 
> Hi Jan,
> 
> Everyone is probably reviewed-out :)
> 
> I'm happy to ack once the +='s are fixed.
> 
> Regards,
> Billy.
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jan Scheurich [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 4:04 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]; Stokes, Ian <[email protected]>;
> > [email protected]; O Mahony, Billy <[email protected]>
> > Subject: RE: [PATCH v8 0/3] dpif-netdev: Detailed PMD performance metrics 
> > and
> > supervision
> >
> > Gentle reminder to review this series which unfortunately missed the 2.9
> > deadline.
> >
> > I checked and the patches still apply on today's master.
> > So far I have received one comment from Billy
> > https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2018-January/343808.html
> >
> > Thanks, Jan
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jan Scheurich
> > > Sent: Friday, 26 January, 2018 13:20
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> > > [email protected]; Jan Scheurich <[email protected]>
> > > Subject: [PATCH v8 0/3] dpif-netdev: Detailed PMD performance metrics
> > > and supervision
> > >
> > > The run-time performance of PMDs is often difficult to understand and
> > > trouble-shoot. The existing PMD statistics counters only provide a
> > > coarse grained average picture. At packet rates of several Mpps
> > > sporadic drops of packet bursts happen at sub-millisecond time scales
> > > and are impossible to capture and analyze with existing tools.
> > >
> > > This patch collects a large number of important PMD performance
> > > metrics per PMD iteration, maintaining histograms and circular
> > > histories for iteration metrics and millisecond averages. To capture
> > > sporadic drop events, the patch set can be configured to monitor
> > > iterations for suspicious metrics and to log the neighborhood of such
> > iterations for off-line analysis.
> > >
> > > The extra cost for the performance metric collection and the
> > > supervision has been measured to be in the order of 1% compared to the
> > > base commit in a PVP setup with L3 pipeline over VXLAN tunnels. For
> > > that reason the metrics collection is disabled by default and can be
> > > enabled at run-time through configuration.
> > >
> > > v7 -> v8:
> > > * Rebased on to master (commit 4e99b70df)
> > > * Implemented comments from Ilya Maximets and Billy O'Mahony.
> > > * Replaced netdev_rxq_length() introduced in v7 by optional out
> > >   parameter for the remaining rx queue len in netdev_rxq_recv().
> > > * Fixed thread synchronization issues in clearing PMD stats:
> > >   - Use mutex to control whether to clear from main thread directly
> > >     or in PMD at start of next iteration.
> > >   - Use mutex to prevent concurrent clearing and printing of metrics.
> > > * Added tx packet and batch stats to pmd-perf-show output.
> > > * Delay warning for suspicious iteration to the iteration in which
> > >   we also log the neighborhood to not pollute the logged iteration
> > >   stats with logging costs.
> > > * Corrected the exact number of iterations logged before and after a
> > >   supicious iteration.
> > > * Introduced options -e and -ne in pmd-perf-log-set to control whether
> > >   to *extend* the range of logged iterations when additional supicious
> > >   iterations are detected before the scheduled end of logging interval
> > >   is reached.
> > > * Exclude logging cycles from the iteration stats to avoid confusing
> > >   ghost peaks.
> > > * Performance impact compared to master less than 1% even with
> > >   supervision enabled.
> > >
> > > v5 -> v7:
> > > * Rebased on to dpdk_merge (commit e666668)
> > >   - New base contains earlier refactoring parts of series.
> > > * Implemented comments from Ilya Maximets and Billy O'Mahony.
> > > * Replaced piggybacking qlen on dp_packet_batch with a new netdev API
> > >   netdev_rxq_length().
> > > * Thread-safe clearing of pmd counters in pmd_perf_start_iteration().
> > > * Fixed bug in reporting datapath stats.
> > > * Work-around a bug in DPDK rte_vhost_rx_queue_count() which sometimes
> > >   returns bogus in the upper 16 bits of the uint32_t return value.
> > >
> > > v4 -> v5:
> > > * Rebased to master (commit e9de6c0)
> > > * Implemented comments from Aaron Conole and Darrel Ball
> > >
> > > v3 -> v4:
> > > * Rebased to master (commit 4d0a31b)
> > >   - Reverting changes to struct dp_netdev_pmd_thread.
> > > * Make metrics collection configurable.
> > > * Several bugfixes.
> > >
> > > v2 -> v3:
> > > * Rebased to OVS master (commit 3728b3b).
> > > * Non-trivial adaptation to struct dp_netdev_pmd_thread.
> > >   - refactored in commit a807c157 (Bhanu).
> > > * No other changes compared to v2.
> > >
> > > v1 -> v2:
> > > * Rebased to OVS master (commit 7468ec788).
> > > * No other changes compared to v1.
> > >
> > >
> > > Jan Scheurich (3):
> > >   netdev: Add optional qfill output parameter to rxq_recv()
> > >   dpif-netdev: Detailed performance stats for PMDs
> > >   dpif-netdev: Detection and logging of suspicious PMD iterations
> > >
> > >  NEWS                        |   5 +
> > >  lib/automake.mk             |   1 +
> > >  lib/dpif-netdev-perf.c      | 551
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > >  lib/dpif-netdev-perf.h      | 300 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > >  lib/dpif-netdev-unixctl.man | 216 +++++++++++++++++
> > >  lib/dpif-netdev.c           | 187 ++++++++++++++-
> > >  lib/netdev-bsd.c            |   8 +-
> > >  lib/netdev-dpdk.c           |  25 +-
> > >  lib/netdev-dummy.c          |   8 +-
> > >  lib/netdev-linux.c          |   7 +-
> > >  lib/netdev-provider.h       |   7 +-
> > >  lib/netdev.c                |   5 +-
> > >  lib/netdev.h                |   3 +-
> > >  manpages.mk                 |   2 +
> > >  vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in  |  27 +--
> > >  vswitchd/vswitch.xml        |  12 +
> > >  16 files changed, 1302 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)  create mode
> > > 100644 lib/dpif-netdev-unixctl.man
> > >
> > > --
> > > 1.9.1

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