On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 03:40:33PM +0000, Zoltan Kiss wrote: > > > On 01/12/15 18:04, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 04:09:07PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > >>On 11/26/2015 07:56 PM, Traynor, Kevin wrote: > >>>Just wanted to post some summary notes on the recent OVS with DPDK Meetup > >>>we > >>>had after the OVS conference. Thanks to everyone for the often lively > >>>discussion. > >>>I've collated and condensed Maryam's notes (Thank you Maryam) with my own. > >>>Corrections and additions are welcome. > >>> > >>>Usability > >>>========== > >>>* Command line options > >>> - Create defaults which can be overridden on the command line. > >>> -c 0x1 > >>> -n 4 (this will be in DPDK 2.2 also) > >>> -socket-mem 1024,0 > >> > >>Another possibility might be saving these in Open_vSwitch other_config db > >>along with pmd-cpu-mask and the like. DPDK init could be delayed until the > >>config db is available I think. > > > >It would seem to make sense to configure DPDK the same way as everything > >else in OVS: through the database. > > > We already did something like that for ODP: > > https://git.linaro.org/lng/odp-ovs.git/commitdiff/39944d3d6b95591eb1ac113a6816ac44c3a2832b > https://git.linaro.org/lng/odp-ovs.git/commitdiff/1b38b79f8017988ae41bae8b35d39798ad25e699 > > With the second patch we removed the need for external variables, which ease > up things even more.
Sounds like what we want. Does anyone want to submit these for upstream OVS? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
