[ovs-dev] [PATCH 0/6] DPDK: simplify configuration

[Gray, Mark D]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Daniele Di
> Proietto
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 6:05 PM
> This series improves OVS configuration with DPDK in three ways:
> 
> * netdev-dpdk is patched to work on smaller systems (without 1GB
> hugepages)
>   or with smaller NICs (without lots of transmission queues).
> * the 'other_config:nonpmd-cpu-mask' key is introduced: it can be used to
>   limit OVS non PMD threads to a particular set of cores.
> * the 'other_config:n-pmd-cores' key is introduced: it allows setting the
>   number of PMD threads without specifing a CPU mask.
> 
> Daniele Di Proietto (6):
>   netdev-dpdk: create smaller mempools in case of failure
>   netdev-dpdk: Adapt the requested number of tx and rx queues.
>   ovs-thread: Keep a list of all threads.
>   dpif-netdev: Allow controlling non PMD threads' affinity
>   dpif-netdev: Allow configuring number of PMD threads.
>   INSTALL.DPDK.md: Update documentation on multiple threads
> 
Great to see this!