Re: [vpp-dev] Approximate effective CPU utilization of VPP worker

2019-06-10 Thread Prashant Upadhyaya
n Behalf Of Prashant > Upadhyaya > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 6:13 AM > To: Dave Barach (dbarach) > Cc: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io > Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] Approximate effective CPU utilization of VPP worker > > Hi Dave, > > Thanks for your suggestion. > > As an attempt

Re: [vpp-dev] Approximate effective CPU utilization of VPP worker

2019-06-10 Thread Dave Barach via Lists.Fd.Io
Dave -Original Message- From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io On Behalf Of Prashant Upadhyaya Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 6:13 AM To: Dave Barach (dbarach) Cc: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] Approximate effective CPU utilization of VPP worker Hi Dave, Thanks for your suggestion. As a

Re: [vpp-dev] Approximate effective CPU utilization of VPP worker

2019-06-10 Thread Prashant Upadhyaya
Hi Dave, Thanks for your suggestion. As an attempt towards an alternate strategy, I did go ahead and make a change in the main loop of VPP18.01 (similar change as I describe below should be valid much in a similar fashion to subsequent releases) and it seems to be working for me, but there might

Re: [vpp-dev] Approximate effective CPU utilization of VPP worker

2019-06-07 Thread Dave Barach via Lists.Fd.Io
The instantaneous vector size - in the stats segment, per-thread - is the best measure of how hard vpp is working. It's not a linear function of the offered load, but for any given offered load / feature set you can model it with three segments: * Dead asleep: vector size < 3, offered l