PMD Auto Load Balance was introduced as an experimental feature in OVS 2.11. It is used to detect that the Rx queue to PMD assignments are no longer balanced and it would be better to reassign.
It is disabled by default, and can be enabled with: $ ovs-vsctl set open_vswitch . other_config:pmd-auto-lb="true" Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <[email protected]> Acked-by: Sunil Pai G <[email protected]> --- Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst | 4 ++-- NEWS | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst index 66f91c6ee..7210a4bb9 100644 --- a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst +++ b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst @@ -242,6 +242,6 @@ The Rx queues may be assigned to the cores in the following order:: Core 8: P1Q0 | -PMD Automatic Load Balance (experimental) ------------------------------------------ +PMD Automatic Load Balance +-------------------------- Cycle or utilization based allocation of Rx queues to PMDs is done to give an diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bc4a1cfac..5dcda7c66 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -29,4 +29,6 @@ Post-v2.16.0 now dp_hash. Previously this was limited to 64 buckets. This change is mainly for the benefit of OVN load balancing configurations. + - Userspace datapath: + * Removed experimental tag for PMD Auto Load Balance. -- 2.31.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
