[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3 10/n] docs: Clarify changes in Rx queue allocation

Kevin Traynor ktraynor at redhat.com
Fri Apr 20 09:37:36 UTC 2018


On 04/20/2018 10:24 AM, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> Two mistakes here:
> 
> - Automatic assignment of Rx queues to PMD threads has always existed -
>   it was simply switched from round-robin allocation to
>   utilization-based allocation
> - The above, along with the 'pmd-rxq-rebalance' command, was added in
>   OVS 2.9.0 - not OVS 2.8.0 - while the 'pmd-rxq-show' command was added
>   in OVS 2.6.0 and modified in OVS 2.9.0
> 
> Correct both of these and modify the NEWS entry for this to clarify
> things a little (it took a bit of git spelunking and bothering people on
> IRC to figure out).
> 

Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>

> Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
> Cc: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
> Cc: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>
> ---
> I'm not sure if it's OK to modify NEWS entries after a release. If not,
> please simply drop that hunk when applying this.
> ---
>  Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst | 17 ++++++++++-------
>  NEWS                              |  2 ++
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst
> index a652720e2..5f0671ecc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/pmd.rst
> @@ -148,14 +148,17 @@ or can be triggered by using::
>  
>      $ ovs-appctl dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-rebalance
>  
> -.. versionchanged:: 2.8.0
> +.. versionchanged:: 2.6.0
>  
> -   Automatic assignment of Rx queues to PMDs and the two related commands,
> -   ``pmd-rxq-show`` and ``pmd-rxq-rebalance``, were added in OVS 2.8.0. Prior
> -   to this, behavior was round-robin and processing cycles were not taken into
> -   consideration. Tracking for stats was not available.
> +   The ``pmd-rxq-show`` command was added in OVS 2.6.0.
>  
>  .. versionchanged:: 2.9.0
>  
> -   The output of ``pmd-rxq-show`` was modified to include utilization as a
> -   percentage.
> +   Utilization-based allocation of Rx queues to PMDs and the
> +   ``pmd-rxq-rebalance`` command were added in OVS 2.9.0. Prior to this,
> +   allocation was round-robin and processing cycles were not taken into
> +   consideration.
> +
> +   In addition, the output of ``pmd-rxq-show`` was modified to include
> +   Rx queue utilization of the PMD as a percentage. Prior to this, tracking of
> +   stats was not available.
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index cd4ffbbfb..3e3f55385 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ v2.9.0 - 19 Feb 2018
>            "management" statistics.
>          - ovs-ofctl dump-ports command now prints new of set custom statistics
>            if available (for OpenFlow 1.4+).
> +     * Switch from round-robin allocation of rxq to pmd assignments to a
> +       utilization-based allocation.
>       * New appctl command 'dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-rebalance' to rebalance rxq to
>         pmd assignments.
>       * Add rxq utilization of pmd to appctl 'dpif-netdev/pmd-rxq-show'.
> 



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