[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/5] Do not renice the netback thread.

Ian Campbell Ian.Campbell at eu.citrix.com
Thu Sep 10 08:22:17 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 18:53 +0100, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sep 9, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >
> >> Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> We should increase the vswitchd daemon's priority instead.
> >>
> >> Patches 1 and 2 look OK from a technical point of view, but I
> >> wonder if it would be more flexible to just do something like the
> >> following patch in place of these two.  In other words, instead
> >> of dropping the ability to change netback's priority, just turn
> >> it off for now.  That would preserve our flexibility in case we
> >> change our minds later for whatever reason.
> >
> > I guess my concern is that we shouldn't be mucking with other
> > processes' priorities.  Theoretically, they've been tested and known
> > to work at whatever level was originally configured.  Doing it the way
> > you've proposed obviously doesn't cause any harm, but by providing it
> > as an option, users are more likely to mess things up by thinking it's
> > an approved tweakable parameter.
> 
> Fair enough, I guess.
> 
> I pushed these to master without changes.  I also crossported
> them to citrix and pushed those changes out too.

Thanks. FWIW I think if it turns out that the netback thread priority
needs changing then that's something I should really take to upstream
Xen.

Ian.





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