[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] netdev-dpdk: Enable vhost-tx-retries config.

[Eelco Chaudron]

On 25 Jun 2019, at 16:57, Kevin Traynor wrote:

> vhost tx retries can provide some mitigation against
> dropped packets due to a temporarily slow guest/limited queue
> size for an interface, but on the other hand when a system
> is fully loaded those extra cycles retrying could mean
> packets are dropped elsewhere.
>
> Up to now max vhost retries have been hardcoded, which meant
> no tuning and no way to disable for debugging to see if extra
> cycles spent retrying resulted in rx drops on some other
> interface.
>
> Add an option to change the max retries, with a value of
> 0 effectively disabling vhost tx retries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>

No additional comments to Flavio’s for this patch. So will wait for 
your v3 and ack it.

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