Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/3] netdev-dpdk: Enable vhost-tx-retries config.

2019-06-25 Thread Eelco Chaudron
On 25 Jun 2019, at 12:09, Kevin Traynor wrote: On 25/06/2019 09:31, Eelco Chaudron wrote: On 21 Jun 2019, at 15:41, Kevin Traynor wrote: vhost tx retries can provide some mitigation against dropped packets due to a temporarily slow guest/limited queue size for an interface, but on the

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/3] netdev-dpdk: Enable vhost-tx-retries config.

2019-06-25 Thread Kevin Traynor
On 25/06/2019 09:31, Eelco Chaudron wrote: > > > On 21 Jun 2019, at 15:41, Kevin Traynor wrote: > >> vhost tx retries can provide some mitigation against >> dropped packets due to a temporarily slow guest/limited queue >> size for an interface, but on the other hand when a system >> is fully

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/3] netdev-dpdk: Enable vhost-tx-retries config.

2019-06-25 Thread Eelco Chaudron
On 21 Jun 2019, at 15:41, Kevin Traynor wrote: vhost tx retries can provide some mitigation against dropped packets due to a temporarily slow guest/limited queue size for an interface, but on the other hand when a system is fully loaded those extra cycles retrying could mean packets are

[ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/3] netdev-dpdk: Enable vhost-tx-retries config.

2019-06-21 Thread Kevin Traynor
vhost tx retries can provide some mitigation against dropped packets due to a temporarily slow guest/limited queue size for an interface, but on the other hand when a system is fully loaded those extra cycles retrying could mean packets are dropped elsewhere. Up to now max vhost retries have been