>- With SMT enabled, one physical core appears as two logical cores >- which can improve performance. >+ - OVS current development can be clone using 'git' tool > >- SMT can be utilized to add additional pmd threads without consuming >- additional physical cores. Additional pmd threads may be added in the >- same manner as described in section 2. If trying to minimize the use >- of physical cores for pmd threads, care must be taken to set the >- correct bits in the pmd-cpu-mask to ensure that the pmd threads are >- pinned to SMT siblings. >+ ``` >+ cd /usr/src/ >+ git clone https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs.git >+ export OVS_DIR=/usr/src/ovs >+ ``` > >Not a big deal, but I would be less verbose about downloading OVS sources. >The reader probably already has already downloaded the sources and is >reading the document offline. >I'd definitely remove instruction on how to get a tarball from github.
Thanks Daniele for reviewing the install guides. I have removed the tarball download instructions and sent out V9 patch. > > >- For example, when using 2x 10 core processors in a dual socket system >- with HT enabled, /proc/cpuinfo will report 40 logical cores. To use >- two logical cores which share the same physical core for pmd threads, >- the following command can be used to identify a pair of logical cores. >+ - Install OVS dependencies > >- `cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/topology/thread_siblings_list` >+ GNU make, GCC 4.x (or) Clang 3.4 (Mandatory) >+ libssl, libcap-ng, Python 2.7 (Optional) > >Would you mind adding libnuma again here? I have added libnuma to mandatory list in v9. Regards, Bhanu Prakash. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
