[ovs-discuss] does vswitchd runs multiple threads when i added dpdk devices

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Jul 28 16:15:11 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 07:33:35AM +0000, Srinivas Reddi wrote:
> As per my understanding  each  dpdk device is polled on different thread .
> But in my case vswithcd is running in only single thread [on core 0]  , I expected to run on 3 cores ..
> 
> One thing I want to clarify   that .. does ovs-vswitchd runs on single core only  .. or multiple thereads .. when I added dpdk devices .
> If vswitchd runs on multiple threads , when I added dpdk devices .. pls let me know how can I run .

It looks like right now OVS has only one dpdk polling thread.



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