Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH V2 04/10] dpif-netdev: Add poll-mode-device thread.

2014-03-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:03:18AM -0700, Pravin wrote: > This patch adds PMD type netdev for netdevice with poll-mode > drivers. Since there is no way to get signal on a packet recv > from these devices we need to poll them in busy loop. So minimize > system call overhead this patch uses dpif-th

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH V2 04/10] dpif-netdev: Add poll-mode-device thread.

2014-03-21 Thread Thomas Graf
On 03/21/2014 07:03 PM, Pravin wrote: This patch adds PMD type netdev for netdevice with poll-mode drivers. Since there is no way to get signal on a packet recv from these devices we need to poll them in busy loop. So minimize system call overhead this patch uses dpif-thread exclusively for PMD

[ovs-dev] [PATCH V2 04/10] dpif-netdev: Add poll-mode-device thread.

2014-03-21 Thread Pravin
This patch adds PMD type netdev for netdevice with poll-mode drivers. Since there is no way to get signal on a packet recv from these devices we need to poll them in busy loop. So minimize system call overhead this patch uses dpif-thread exclusively for PMD devices and rest of devices which needs