[ovs-discuss] OVS - poll mode

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Tue May 23 17:21:17 UTC 2017


On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:22:45PM +0000, Avi Cohen (A) wrote:
> I don't remember where, but recently I read a document which says that OVS is capable to automatically switch to poll mode (instead of interrupts)  when traffic is exceeding  a predefined threshold.
> (I'm not talking about OVS-DPDK ) Is this correct ?

I think that the kernel does that whether OVS is in the picture or not.
It's called "NAPI".


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