Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] dpif-netdev: Avoid port's reconfiguration on pmd-cpu-mask changes.

2017-07-23 Thread Darrell Ball
This patch was discussed here already. https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-July/336145.html We think it needs more work. -Original Message- From: Ilya Maximets Date: Friday, July 21, 2017 at 5:51 AM To: "ovs-dev@openvswitch.org" , Darrell Ball Cc: Heetae Ahn , Daniele

[ovs-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] dpif-netdev: Avoid port's reconfiguration on pmd-cpu-mask changes.

2017-07-21 Thread Ilya Maximets
Reconfiguration of HW NICs may lead to packet drops. In current model all physical ports will be reconfigured each time number of PMD threads changed. Since we not stopping threads on pmd-cpu-mask changes, this patch will help to further decrease port's downtime by setting the maximum possible numb