Re: [ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] OVS DPDK NUMA pmd assignment question for physical port

2017-09-06 Thread Jan Scheurich
Hi Billy, > You are going to have to take the hit crossing the NUMA boundary at some > point if your NIC and VM are on different NUMAs. > > So are you saying that it is more expensive to cross the NUMA boundary from > the pmd to the VM that to cross it from the NIC to the > PMD? Indeed, that i

Re: [ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] OVS DPDK NUMA pmd assignment question for physical port

2017-09-06 Thread Jan Scheurich
> > I think the mention of pinning was confusing me a little. Let me see if I > fully understand your use case: You don't 'want' to pin > anything but you are using it as a way to force the distribution of rxq from > a single nic across to PMDs on different NUMAs. As without > pinning all rxqs

Re: [ovs-discuss] Mempool issue for OVS 2.9

2018-01-26 Thread Jan Scheurich
> -Original Message- > From: Stokes, Ian [mailto:ian.sto...@intel.com] > Sent: Friday, 26 January, 2018 13:01 > To: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org > Cc: Kevin Traynor ; Flavio Leitner ; > Ilya Maximets (i.maxim...@samsung.com) > ; Loftus, Ciara ; Kavanagh, > Mark B

Re: [ovs-discuss] Mempool issue for OVS 2.9

2018-01-29 Thread Jan Scheurich
lt in 2 * [ 4 * 2K + 9 * 2K ] + 8K = 60K mbufs. BR, Jan > -Original Message- > From: Venkatesan Pradeep > Sent: Friday, 26 January, 2018 18:34 > To: Jan Scheurich ; Stokes, Ian > ; ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org > Cc: Kevin Traynor ; Flavio Leitner ; > Ilya Maximets

Re: [ovs-discuss] Mempool issue for OVS 2.9

2018-01-29 Thread Jan Scheurich
> -Original Message- > From: Ilya Maximets [mailto:i.maxim...@samsung.com] > Sent: Monday, 29 January, 2018 09:35 > To: Jan Scheurich ; Venkatesan Pradeep > ; Stokes, Ian > ; d...@openvswitch.org > Cc: Kevin Traynor ; Flavio Leitner ; > Loftus, Ciara ; Kavanagh,

Re: [ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] DPDK: How to send packets from one OVS bridge to another OVS bridge while running in the same user space ?

2018-02-13 Thread Jan Scheurich
Hi Kapil, This is what patch ports are for. They are only traversed for the first packet of a flow in the slow path. The resulting datapath flow entry collapses the processing in both bridges into a single megaflow. So there is no performance overhead compared to having a single bridge. Regard

Re: [ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] DPDK: How to send packets from one OVS bridge to another OVS bridge while running in the same user space ?

2018-02-14 Thread Jan Scheurich
vSwitch in the VM would then use the virtio PMD, I expect this to be supported by all DPDK vSwitches. BR, Jan From: Kapil A [mailto:kapil20...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 14 February, 2018 03:47 To: Jan Scheurich Cc: disc...@openvswitch.org; d...@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] DPDK: How to

Re: [ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] DPDK: How to send packets from one OVS bridge to another OVS bridge while running in the same user space ?

2018-02-19 Thread Jan Scheurich
cannot connect to DPDK rings as ports. BR, Jan From: Kapil A [mailto:kapil20...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 19 February, 2018 13:41 To: Jan Scheurich Cc: disc...@openvswitch.org; d...@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] DPDK: How to send packets from one OVS bridge to another OVS bridge while

Re: [ovs-discuss] NSH related questions

2018-04-20 Thread Jan Scheurich
Hi Ashish, You are asking relevant and interesting questions that have been bothering us for quite some time. Please find some partial answers/thoughts below. Best regards, Jan From: Ashish Varma [mailto:ava...@vmware.com] Sent: Monday, 16 April, 2018 21:28 To: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org; Jan