On 04/20/2018 10:24 AM, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> Two mistakes here:
>
> - Automatic assignment of Rx queues to PMD threads has always existed -
> it was simply switched from round-robin allocation to
> utilization-based allocation
> - The above, along with the 'pmd-rxq-rebalance' command, was added in
> OVS 2.9.0 - not OVS 2.8.0 - while the 'pmd-rxq-show' command was added
> in OVS 2.6.0 and modified in OVS 2.9.0
>
> Correct both of these and modify the NEWS entry for this to clarify
> things a little (it took a bit of git spelunking and bothering people on
> IRC to figure out).
>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane
> Cc: Kevin Traynor
> Cc: Ian Stokes
> ---
> I'm not sure if it's OK to modify NEWS entries after a release. If not,
> please simply drop that hunk when applying this.
> ---
> Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst | 17 ++---
> NEWS | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst
> b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst
> index a652720e2..5f0671ecc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst
> @@ -148,14 +148,17 @@ or can be triggered by using::
>
> $ ovs-appctl dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-rebalance
>
> -.. versionchanged:: 2.8.0
> +.. versionchanged:: 2.6.0
>
> - Automatic assignment of Rx queues to PMDs and the two related commands,
> - ``pmd-rxq-show`` and ``pmd-rxq-rebalance``, were added in OVS 2.8.0. Prior
> - to this, behavior was round-robin and processing cycles were not taken
> into
> - consideration. Tracking for stats was not available.
> + The ``pmd-rxq-show`` command was added in OVS 2.6.0.
>
> .. versionchanged:: 2.9.0
>
> - The output of ``pmd-rxq-show`` was modified to include utilization as a
> - percentage.
> + Utilization-based allocation of Rx queues to PMDs and the
> + ``pmd-rxq-rebalance`` command were added in OVS 2.9.0. Prior to this,
> + allocation was round-robin and processing cycles were not taken into
> + consideration.
> +
> + In addition, the output of ``pmd-rxq-show`` was modified to include
> + Rx queue utilization of the PMD as a percentage. Prior to this, tracking
> of
> + stats was not available.
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index cd4ffbbfb..3e3f55385 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ v2.9.0 - 19 Feb 2018
>"management" statistics.
> - ovs-ofctl dump-ports command now prints new of set custom
> statistics
>if available (for OpenFlow 1.4+).
> + * Switch from round-robin allocation of rxq to pmd assignments to a
> + utilization-based allocation.
> * New appctl command 'dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-rebalance' to rebalance rxq to
> pmd assignments.
> * Add rxq utilization of pmd to appctl 'dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-show'.
>
___
dev mailing list
d...@openvswitch.org
https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
