The patches as sent don't create any threads. That's future work, for as-yet unposted patches. On Jun 26, 2013 7:24 PM, "jerry" <jerry.lili...@huawei.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your quickly reply. > > I have downloaded the codes of ovs-reviews-thread in your "reviews" > repository and doing some test on new patches. > > In my test, the multithreaded feature doesn't work and there is no change > on ovs-vswitchd threads. Some results of executing "ps -ef | grep ovs" as > follows: > > linux-kKoZfU:/mnt/sdb/ovs-reviews-threads # ps -ef |grep ovs > root 24039 1 0 09:27 ? 00:00:00 ovsdb-server > /usr/local/etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db > --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock > --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options --pidfile --detach --log-file > root 24042 1 0 09:27 ? 00:00:00 ovs-vswitchd > unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock --pidfile --detach --log-file > root 24043 24042 0 09:27 ? 00:00:00 ovs-vswitchd: worker > process for pid 24042 > > Then I tried to found threads in procfs info of ovs-vswitchd process with > pid 24042. The result of executing "ls /proc/24042/task/" as follows: > > linux-kKoZfU:/mnt/sdb/llj/ovs-reviews-threads # ls -l /proc/24042/task/ > total 0 > dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Jun 27 09:30 24042 > > I can't find any place in code where the added function xpthread_create() > is called. To make ovs multithreaded, So I expect data structures added in > new patches to be used by existing code in the repository. > > Would you like to share some thoughts on that test results? > > Regards, > Jerry > > On 2013/6/26 23:32, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:46:38PM +0800, jerry wrote: > >> I noticed that you have sent out 01~09 of 11 patches on files named > >> ovs-thread.c and ovs-thread.h. > > > > I sent all of them. > > > >> But I can't find the last two patch of them. > > > > Look in patchwork or in my "reviews" repository: > > https://github.com/blp/ovs-reviews/branches > > > >> Also the defined functions and data structures are not used in latest > >> open vswitch codes from git repository. > > > > Why would you expect data structures added in new patches to be used by > > existing code in the repository? > > > >> Is your work to make ovs multi-threaded? What's the train of thought > >> on the work? In my guess, maybe you separate the work of ofproto run > >> or run_fast from ovs-vswitchd process and run the work as a single > >> thread. Is that right? > > > > That's roughly the idea. > > > > > > >
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