On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:23 PM Kevin Traynor <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Christophe Fontaine <[email protected]> > > Two important parts of how auto load balance operates is how > loaded a core needs to be and how much improvement is estimated > before an auto load balance can trigger. > > Previously they were hardcoded to 95% loaded and 25% variance > improvement. > > These default values may not be suitable for all use cases and > we may want to use a more (or less) aggressive rebalance, either > on the pmd load threshold or on the minimum variance improvement > threshold. > > The defaults are not changed, but "pmd-auto-lb-pmd-load" and > "pmd-auto-lb-improvement" parameters are added to override the defaults. > > $ ovs-vsctl set open_vswitch . other_config:pmd-auto-lb-pmd-load="70" > $ ovs-vsctl set open_vswitch . other_config:pmd-auto-lb-improvement="20" > > Signed-off-by: Christophe Fontaine <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Marchand <[email protected]> Just a nit: we could use a single denomination like *PMD* auto load balancing/balance in both NEWS and the database fields description for consistency and avoid confusion with other OVS features. -- David Marchand _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
