[ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] OVS DPDK NUMA pmd assignment question for physical port

O Mahony, Billy billy.o.mahony at intel.com
Wed Sep 6 14:51:37 UTC 2017



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Traynor [mailto:ktraynor at redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 3:02 PM
> To: Jan Scheurich <jan.scheurich at ericsson.com>; O Mahony, Billy
> <billy.o.mahony at intel.com>; wangzhike at jd.com; Darrell Ball
> <dball at vmware.com>; ovs-discuss at openvswitch.org; ovs-
> dev at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] OVS DPDK NUMA pmd assignment question for
> physical port
> 
> On 09/06/2017 02:43 PM, Jan Scheurich wrote:
> >>
> >> I think the mention of pinning was confusing me a little. Let me see
> >> if I fully understand your use case:  You don't 'want' to pin
> >> anything but you are using it as a way to force the distribution of rxq from
> a single nic across to PMDs on different NUMAs. As without pinning all rxqs
> are assigned to the NUMA-local pmd leaving the other PMD totally unused.
> >>
> >> But then when you used pinning you the PMDs became isolated so the
> >> vhostuser ports rxqs would not be assigned to the PMDs unless they too
> were pinned. Which worked but was not manageable as VM (and vhost
> ports) came and went.
> >>
> >> Yes?
> >
> > Yes!!!
[[BO'M]] Hurrah!
> >
> >>
> >> In that case what we probably want is the ability to pin an rxq to a
> >> pmd but without also isolating the pmd. So the PMD could be assigned
> some rxqs manually and still have others automatically assigned.
> >
> > Wonderful. That is exactly what I have wanted to propose for a while:
> Separate PMD isolation from pinning of Rx queues.
> >
> > Tying these two together makes it impossible to use pinning of Rx queues
> in OpenStack context (without the addition of dedicated PMDs/cores). And
> even during manual testing it is a nightmare to have to manually pin all 48
> vhostuser queues just because we want to pin the two heavy-loaded Rx
> queues to different PMDs.
> >
> 
> That sounds like it would be useful. Do you know in advance of running which
> rxq's they will be? i.e. you know it's particular port and there is only one
> queue. Or you don't know but analyze at runtime and then reconfigure?
> 
> > The idea would be to introduce a separate configuration option for PMDs
> to isolate them, and no longer automatically set that when pinning an rx
> queue to the PMD.
> >
> 
> Please don't break backward compatibility. I think it would be better to keep
> the existing command as is and add a new softer version that allows other
> rxq's to be scheduled on that pmd also.
[[BO'M]] Although is implicit isolation feature of pmd-rxq-affinity actuall used in the wild?  But still it's sensible to introduce the new 'softer version' as you say. 
> 
> Kevin.
> 
> > BR, Jan
> >



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