Re: [ovs-discuss] Multiqueue with dpdk ports

2016-09-06 Thread Stokes, Ian
Hi Kapil, RSS based on IP is used for dispersing received packets among queues on the NIC by default. I haven’t looked into setting this up for specific packet types myself, maybe someone else on the list can help with that point. If you looking for a quick guide to test vhost multiqueue with

Re: [ovs-discuss] bug in ovs-vswitchd?!

2016-07-07 Thread Stokes, Ian
Hi Mechthild, I've tried to reproduce this issue on my setup (Fedora 22 kerenl 4.1.8) but have not been able to reproduce it. A few questions to help the investigation 1. Are you running 1 or 2 VMs in the setup (i.e. 1 vm with 2 vhost user ports or 2 vms with 1 vhost user port each?) 2. What a

Re: [ovs-discuss] pci_map_resource(): cannot mmap(..): Invalid argument (0xffffffffffffffff)

2016-07-01 Thread Stokes, Ian
Hi, This sounds similar to an issue discussed on the DPDK mailing list, essentially if CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM is turned on in the kernel this behavior occurs. More details in the link below. http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/043122.html Are you using a kernel 4.5+ with fedora 23? Th

Re: [ovs-discuss] Shaping support in ovs-dpdk

2016-03-02 Thread Stokes, Ian
> -Original Message- > From: discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of > gayathri.manepa...@wipro.com > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 6:33 AM > To: discuss@openvswitch.org > Subject: [ovs-discuss] Shaping support in ovs-dpdk > > Hi Team, > > > > I am planning to star

Re: [ovs-discuss] QoS for DPDK-OvS

2016-02-05 Thread Stokes, Ian
Hi Volkan, There is a patch that is currently up for review to enable QoS functionality with DPDK in OVS with a sample egress policer, link below. http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-February/065424.html Thanks Ian > -Original Message- > From: discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@open

[ovs-discuss] OVS segmentation fault due to incorrect TX queue setup with netdev-dpdk

2015-07-15 Thread Stokes, Ian
Hi All, I've been investigating a segmentation fault caused by the incorrect setup of TX queues for netdev-dpdk. It occurs in the following scenario. Running OVS with DPDK on a system with 72 cores (Hyper threading enabled) and using an Intel XL710 Network Card. Default behavior in OVS when ad

[ovs-discuss] Make distcheck fails with "recipe for target 'distcleancheck' failed"

2015-06-23 Thread Stokes, Ian
Hi All, Running "make distcheck" on the latest commit to master in my environment (Fedora 21) and it fails due to files relating to ovn not being removed from the build directory. Command and output below. make distcheck ... rm -rf lib/.deps lib/lldp/.deps ofproto/.deps ovn/.deps ovn/controlle

[ovs-discuss] QoS removal from port and database

2015-06-18 Thread Stokes, Ian
Hi All, I have been experimenting with Openvswitch and QoS. I have a question regarding how an existing QoS configuration on a port is removed. I setup QoS on an existing port with the following command sudo ovs-vsctl -- set Port $IF_NAME qos=@newqos -- \     --id=@newqos create QoS type=linux-

[ovs-discuss] Skip testsuite.patch application during compilation

2015-04-23 Thread Stokes, Ian
Hi all, I'm attempting to compile OVS with DPDK on CentOS 6.6 and I am hitting an issue with testsuite.patch failing to apply during the last stages of compilation. I can see that the structure of the code in ovs/tests/testsuite itself is very different to what testsuite.patch expects (hence wh

Re: [ovs-discuss] what is multiq - and why is it required by ovs for dpdk vmnet3 interfaces?

2015-01-22 Thread Stokes, Ian
> -Original Message- > From: discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of David > Evans > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 3:01 PM > To: discuss@openvswitch.org > Subject: [ovs-discuss] what is multiq - and why is it required by ovs for dpdk > vmnet3 interfaces? > > Hi, > >