[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] dpif-netlink: Introduce per-cpu upcall dispatch

[David Marchand]

Small nits on the NEWS update.

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 3:39 PM Mark Gray <mark.d.gray at redhat.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index a2a2dcf95d7d..80b13e358685 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -29,7 +29,12 @@ Post-v2.15.0
>     - ovsdb-tool:
>       * New option '--election-timer' to the 'create-cluster' command to set the
>         leader election timer during cluster creation.
> -

I think versions are separated with 2 empty lines in NEWS, so you
should leave this one.

> +   - Per-cpu upcall dispatching:

And since this change affects the kernel datapath on Linux:

- Linux datapath:

> +     * ovs-vswitchd will configure the kernel module using per-cpu dispatch
> +       mode (if available). This changes the way upcalls are delivered to user
> +       space in order to resolve a number of issues with per-vport dispatch.
> +       The new debug appctl command `dpif-netlink/dispatch-mode`
> +       will return the current dispatch mode for each datapath.


>
>  v2.15.0 - 15 Feb 2021
>  ---------------------


-- 
David Marchand