Thanks Aaron for all your work! I pushed the series to master
On 29/04/2016 10:43, "Aaron Conole" <acon...@redhat.com> wrote: >Currently, configuration of DPDK parameters is done via the command line >through a --dpdk **OPTIONS** -- command line argument. This has a number of >challenges, including: >* It must be the first option passed to ovs-vswitchd >* It is the only datapath feature in OVS to be configured on the command > line >* It requires specialized knowledge of sub-component command switches >* It also inteprets non-EAL arguments (confusing users) >* It is a broken model for datapath configuration. > >This series brings the following changes to openvswitch: >* All DPDK options are taken from the ovs database rather than the > command line >* Non-EAL arguments also have separate database entries >* DPDK lcores are optionally auto-assigned to a single core based on the > bridge coremask. >* DPDK options have default behaviors >* Updated documentation > >This series has been build tested (including `make check`) on Fedora 23, OS X >Windows (via appveyor), and FreeBSD 10.3; the v13 has had very basic testing >applied (start, configure some of the settings). > >Travis-ci build: https://travis-ci.org/orgcandman/ovs/builds/126691300 >Appveyor build: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/orgcandman/ovs/build/1.0.13 > >A huge round of thanks on the work so far should be given to the following >folks (in alphabetical order): >* Ben Pfaff (Reviews, vhost-sock-dir escape suggestion) >* Christian Erhardt (Testing) >* Daniele Di Proietto (Reviews, general suggestions) >* Flavio Leitner (Original efforts, reviews) >* Kevin Traynor (Testing, general suggestions, reviews, doc reviews) >* Panu Matilainen (Initialization ideas, eal arguments ideas, reviews) >* RobertX Wojciechowicz (Testing, general suggestions) >* Sean Mooney (Testing, general suggestions) > >Previous series: http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-April/069025.html > >v13: >* Rebased to latest upstream >* Addressed sparse errors >* Removed the dpdk-mem-channels option >* Switched to using the other_config smap directly. >* Moved the netdev_dpdk_register() to the dpdk_init__ routine. > >Aaron Conole (6): > netdev-dpdk: Restore thread affinity after DPDK init > netdev-dpdk: Convert initialization from cmdline to db > netdev-dpdk: Restrict vhost_sock_dir > netdev-dpdk: Autofill lcore coremask if absent > netdev-dpdk: Allow arbitrary eal arguments > netdev-dpdk: Check dpdk-extra when reading db > > FAQ.md | 6 +- > INSTALL.DPDK.md | 83 +++++++-- > NEWS | 6 + > lib/automake.mk | 4 + > lib/netdev-dpdk.c | 452 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > lib/netdev-dpdk.h | 14 +- > lib/netdev-nodpdk.c | 20 ++ > lib/netdev.c | 2 - > tests/ofproto-macros.at | 3 +- > utilities/ovs-dev.py | 10 +- > vswitchd/bridge.c | 5 + > vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in | 6 +- > vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.c | 27 +-- > vswitchd/vswitch.xml | 121 ++++++++++++ > 14 files changed, 612 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 lib/netdev-nodpdk.c > >-- >2.5.5 > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
