On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com> wrote: > Previous commit makes OVS create one tx queue for each cpu > core. An upcoming patch will allow multiple pmd threads be > created and pinned to cpu cores. So each pmd thread will use > the tx queue corresponding to its core id. > > Moreover, the pmd threads running on different numa node than > the dpdk interface (called non-local pmd thread) will not > handle the rx of the interface. Consequently, there need to > be a way to flush the tx queues of the non-local pmd threads. > > To address the queue flushing issue, this commit introduces a > new flag 'flush_tx' in the 'struct dpdk_tx_queue' which is > set if the queue is to be used by a non-local pmd thread. > Then, when enqueueing the tx pkts, if the flag is set, the tx > queue will always be flushed immediately after the enqueue. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <al...@nicira.com>
LGTM Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
