On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote: > 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.
I am fine with automatically configuring it at boot up. I missed that is what Ethan was referring. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
