On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Pravin Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Ethan Jackson <et...@nicira.com> wrote: >> I really don't think this should be configurable, I can't imagine a >> situation in which a user would have enough knowledge to tweak the >> knob correctly. I think the only reason we'd want to configure it is >> the current EMC size is too small at the moment. My preference would >> be to figure out how to make it bigger, i.e. by doing prefetching and >> what not. >> > > It does depends on amount of memory available in system which can vary > alot in practice. If you have lot of memory and few devices user can > configure bigger EMC accordingly. Thats why it could be useful to make > it configurable at vswitchd startup time.
Can't these be detected and data structures sized automatically? OVS already has a ton of configuration knobs so I agree with Ethan that it is not helpful to further push this onto the user who is not going to understand this. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
