[ovs-discuss] Is there a plan on extracting upcall handling work from ovs-vswitchd process as a single thread?
Justin Pettit
jpettit at nicira.com
Wed Jun 5 15:25:16 UTC 2013
(The original request got stuck in a mailman queue, so it just not got reposted. For anybody that didn't see the response over the weekend, here it is again.)
There is work underway to make ovs-vswitchd multithreaded.
--Justin
On Jun 4, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Lilijun (Jerry) <jerry.lilijun at huawei.com> wrote:
> Hi, all,
> In my test, when many different ARP request traffics are received from outline, OVS’s kernel module will do upcall for these packets in order to find openflow rules.
> Then ovs-vswitchd process will handle each packet and it’s CPU cost may reach up to 100%, at a result, other control commands will be blocked and can’t be handled.
> So can we extract upcall handling work from ovs-vswitchd process as a single thread? Is there such plan for resolving this problems?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry
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