[ovs-discuss] assigning number of cores to datapath

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 05:12:31PM +0200, Hardik Soni wrote:
> How can I assign number of cores to datapath/bridges in the system? 
> For example, 
> I have 12 core machine. 
> 2 bridges are created using "ovs-vsctl add-br ...." 
> I want to assign 2 cores to each of the bridges. 
> 
> Is it possible, directly or indirectly? 

The kernel datapath doesn't support that.  It would generally be a
waste, since switching work doesn't use much CPU time in common
situations.