In commit a82083ee3091 ("Documentation: Add extra repo info for RHEL 8")
a newline was missing to correctly generate the code block to add
codeready-builder repository.
This commit adds the missing newline to correctly generate the code block
with the RHEL 8 codeready-builder instructions.
Fixes: a82083ee3091 ("Documentation: Add extra repo info for RHEL 8")
Acked-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
When an unbound context is created, check whether OVS_UNBOUND_CONF has been
set. If a valid config file is supplied then use it to configure the
context. The procedure returns if the config file is invalid. If no config
file is found then the default unbound config is used.
Reviewed-by: Yifeng Sun <pkusunyifeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ted Elhourani <ted.elhourani@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
There is an issue with flow control configuration on i40e devices
and it has a work around. We add this to documentation as known issue
until a permanent solution is developed.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Konieczny <tomaszx.konieczny@intel.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
pthreads-win32 has moved too PThreads4W.
This patch updates the build steps, CI (appveyor) and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <aserdean@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Found by inspection.
Signed-off-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <aserdean@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
This patch adds information on how to generate the Windows installer
which can be used to easily deploy the userspace binaries, kernel module
and create services on new environments.
Signed-off-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <aserdean@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
The documentation reported the union of all possible Debian- and
Debian-derived packaging. This isn't realistic: there are differences
between OVS upstream, Debian downstream, and Ubuntu downstream. This
commit distinguishes them.
Reported-by: Ravi Kerur <rkerur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Modify travis linux build script to use DPDK 19.11.2 stable release and
update docs to reference 19.11.2 stable release. Update release faq to
reflect latest validated DPDK versions for all branches.
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
This commit adds a section to the dpdk/bridge.rst netdev documentation,
detailing the added DPCLS functionality. The newly added commands are
documented, and sample output is provided.
Running the DPCLS autovalidator with unit tests by default is possible
through re-compiling the autovalidator to have the highest priority at
startup time. This avoids making changes to all tests, and enables
debug and CI builds to validate every lookup implementation with all
unit tests.
Add NEWS updates for CPU ISA, dynamic subtables, and AVX512 lookup.
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Add notes about some configuration issues when enabling AF_XDP
support.
Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
The extra development repo for RHEL 8 has changed. Document it.
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
The 'XDP_RING_NEED_WAKEUP' and related flags are defined if_xdp.h, so if
users are building their own kernel, users have to update the kernel's
header files, by doing:
$ make headers_install INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr
Otherwise the following error shows:
/usr/local/include/bpf/xsk.h: In function 'xsk_ring_prod__needs_wakeup':
/usr/local/include/bpf/xsk.h:82:21: error: 'XDP_RING_NEED_WAKEUP' undeclared \
(first use in this function)
return *r->flags & XDP_RING_NEED_WAKEUP;
Reported-by: Tomek Osinski <osinstom@gmail.com>
Reported-at: https://osinstom.github.io/en/tutorial/ovs-afxdp-installation/
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Currently, the AF_XDP socket (XSK) related memory are allocated by main
thread in the main thread's NUMA domain. With the patch that detects
netdev-linux's NUMA node id, the PMD thread of AF_XDP port will be run on
the AF_XDP netdev's NUMA domain. If the net device's NUMA domain
is different from the main thread's NUMA domain, we will have two
cross-NUMA memory accesses (netdev <-> memory, memory <-> CPU).
This patch addresses the aforementioned issue by allocating
the memory in the net device's NUMA domain.
Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@gmail.com>
Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
The patch detects the numa node id from the name of the netdev,
by reading the '/sys/class/net/<devname>/device/numa_node'.
If not available, ex: virtual device, or any error happens,
return numa id 0. Currently only the afxdp netdev type uses it,
other linux netdev types are disabled due to no use case.
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
This reverts commit 9e334d91b3ea95e2b96f7b3edcb2ba9c3353288a.
This commit is not needed since OVS doesn't use six anymore.
Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Since Python 2 support was removed in 1ca0323e7c29 ("Require Python 3 and
remove support for Python 2."), python3-six is not needed anymore.
Moreover python3-six is not available on RHEL/CentOS7 without using EPEL
and so this patch is needed in order to release OVS 2.13 on RHEL7.
Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
This commit adds support for DPDK v19.11, it includes the following
changes.
1. travis: Enable compilation and linkage with dpdk 19.11.
2. sparse: Remove dpdk network headers copies.
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1185256/
3. dpdk: Migrate to new PDUMP API.
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1192971/
4. netdev-dpdk: Prefix network structures with rte_.
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1109733/
5. netdev-dpdk: Update by new color definitions.
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1086089/
6. docs: Update docs to reference 19.11.
7. docs: Add note regarding hotplug and igb_uio requirements.
For credit all authors of the original commits to 'dpdk-latest' with the
above changes been added as co-authors for this commmit.
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Co-authored-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
Co-authored-by: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Modify travis linux build script to use the latest DPDK stable release
18.11.5. Update docs for latest DPDK stable releases.
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Until now there was only two options for XDP mode in OVS: SKB or DRV.
i.e. 'generic XDP' or 'native XDP with zero-copy enabled'.
Devices like 'veth' interfaces in Linux supports native XDP, but
doesn't support zero-copy mode. This case can not be covered by
existing API and we have to use slower generic XDP for such devices.
There are few more issues, e.g. TCP is not supported in generic XDP
mode for veth interfaces due to kernel limitations, however it is
supported in native mode.
This change introduces ability to use native XDP without zero-copy
along with best-effort configuration option that enabled by default.
In best-effort case OVS will sequentially try different modes starting
from the fastest one and will choose the first acceptable for current
interface. This will guarantee the best possible performance.
If user will want to choose specific mode, it's still possible by
setting the 'options:xdp-mode'.
This change additionally changes the API by renaming the configuration
knob from 'xdpmode' to 'xdp-mode' and also renaming the modes
themselves to be more user-friendly.
The full list of currently supported modes:
* native-with-zerocopy - former DRV
* native - new one, DRV without zero-copy
* generic - former SKB
* best-effort - new one, chooses the best available from
3 above modes
Since 'best-effort' is a default mode, users will not need to
explicitely set 'xdp-mode' in most cases.
TCP related tests enabled back in system afxdp testsuite, because
'best-effort' will choose 'native' mode for veth interfaces
and this mode has no issues with TCP.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
The patch adds support for using need_wakeup flag in AF_XDP rings.
A new option, use-need-wakeup, is added. When this option is used,
it means that OVS has to explicitly wake up the kernel RX, using poll()
syscall and wake up TX, using sendto() syscall. This feature improves
the performance by avoiding unnecessary sendto syscalls for TX.
For RX, instead of kernel always busy-spinning on fille queue, OVS wakes
up the kernel RX processing when fill queue is replenished.
The need_wakeup feature is merged into Linux kernel bpf-next tee with commit
77cd0d7b3f25 ("xsk: add support for need_wakeup flag in AF_XDP rings") and
OVS enables it by default, if libbpf supports it. If users enable it but
runs in an older version of libbpf, then the need_wakeup feature has no effect,
and a warning message is logged.
For virtual interface, it's better set use-need-wakeup=false, since
the virtual device's AF_XDP xmit is synchronous: the sendto syscall
enters kernel and process the TX packet on tx queue directly.
On Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 2.4GHz system, performance of physical port
to physical port improves from 6.1Mpps to 7.3Mpps.
Suggested-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Since Python 3 is now mandatory, Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux
(EPEL) repository is needed in order to build OVS on RHEL7.
Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
The DPDK library allows OVS fast access to packet I/O in userspace. It
is not a datapath. This commit avoids using that term.
Suggested-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Python 2 reaches end-of-life on January 1, 2020, which is only
a few months away. This means that OVS needs to stop depending
on in the next release that should occur roughly that same time.
Therefore, this commit removes all support for Python 2. It
also makes Python 3 a mandatory build dependency.
Some of the interesting consequences:
- HAVE_PYTHON, HAVE_PYTHON2, and HAVE_PYTHON3 conditionals have
been removed, since we now know that Python3 is available.
- $PYTHON and $PYTHON2 are removed, and $PYTHON3 is always
available.
- Many tests for Python 2 support have been removed, and the ones
that depended on Python 3 now run unconditionally. This allowed
several macros in the testsuite to be removed, making the code
clearer. This does make some of the changes to the testsuite
files large due to indentation level changes.
- #! lines for Python now use /usr/bin/python3 instead of
/usr/bin/python.
- Packaging depends on Python 3 packages.
Acked-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
OVN is separated into its own repo. This commit removes the OVN source,
OVN tests, and OVN documentation. It also removes mentions of OVN from
most documentation. The only place where OVN has been left is in
changelogs/NEWS, since we shouldn't mess with the history of the
project.
There is an exception here. The ovsdb-cluster tests rely on ovn-nbctl
and ovn-sbctl to run. Therefore those ovn utilities, as well as their
dependencies remain in the repo with this commit.
Acked-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Michelson <mmichels@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
1. Start OVS components in containers so that building and shipping
of OVS components is easy.
2. Load OVS kernel modules on host from container to avoid installing ovs
on host.
3. Update documentation about how to build/run ovs in docker.
Acked-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: aginwala <aginwala@ebay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
The patch introduces experimental AF_XDP support for OVS netdev.
AF_XDP, the Address Family of the eXpress Data Path, is a new Linux socket
type built upon the eBPF and XDP technology. It is aims to have comparable
performance to DPDK but cooperate better with existing kernel's networking
stack. An AF_XDP socket receives and sends packets from an eBPF/XDP program
attached to the netdev, by-passing a couple of Linux kernel's subsystems
As a result, AF_XDP socket shows much better performance than AF_PACKET
For more details about AF_XDP, please see linux kernel's
Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst. Note that by default, this feature is
not compiled in.
Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Modify travis linux build script to use the latest DPDK stable release
18.11.2. Update docs for latest DPDK stable releases.
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Despite of comments in both files no-one ever adjusted start/end-line
in 'what-is-ovs' document. As a result, current document contains
truncated "tools" section.
Let's replace start/end-line with start-after/end-before which requires
less attention. Additionally, 'make docs-check' will fail if specified
lines will not be found, i.e it'll be harder to mess up the docs again.
"Fixes" tag points to commit that broke the lines first.
Fixes: 602e24ee189b ("doc: Remove experimental warning for DPDK.")
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen@that.guru>
Modify travis linux build script to use the latest
DPDK stable release 18.11.1. Update docs for latest
DPDK stable releases.
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Up until now, OVN rpms were generated as sub packages of OpenvSwitch.
This patch now splits it and makes OVN rpms independent.
A new spec file - ovn-fedora.spec.in is added for this.
The openvswitch-fedora.spec.in has been modified to create only
OpenvSwitch packages.
Since we are not splitting the OVN code, the spec files run the
same build procedure. Only the required binaries/files are copied
into the rpms.
The new package names will be ovn, ovn-common, ovn-central, ovn-host,
ovn-vtep and ovn-docker.
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
When adding a new chassis, if there is an old chassis with same IP
existed in Encap table, it is allowed to be added today. However,
allowing it to be added results in problems:
1. The new chassis cannot work because none of the other chassises
are able to create tunnel to it, because of the IP confliction
with already existed tunnel to the old chassis.
2. All the other chassises will continuously retry creating the tunnel
and complaining about the error.
So, instead of hiding the problem, it is better to expose it while
trying to add the second chassis with duplicated IP. This patch
ensures it from the ovsdb schema.
Signed-off-by: Han Zhou <hzhou8@ebay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
This commit adds support for DPDK v18.11, it includes the following
changes.
1. Enable compilation and linkage with dpdk 18.11.0
The following dpdk commits which were introduced after dpdk 17.11.x
require OVS updates to accommodate to the dpdk changes.
- ce17edde ("ethdev: introduce Rx queue offloads API")
- ab3ce1e0 ("ethdev: remove old offload API")
- c06ddf96 ("meter: add configuration profile")
- e58638c3 ("ethdev: fix TPID handling in flow API")
- cd8c7c7c ("ethdev: replace bus specific struct with generic dev")
- ac8d22de ("ethdev: flatten RSS configuration in flow API")
2. Limit configured rss hash functions to only those supported
by the eth device.
3. Set default RSS key in struct action_rss_data, required by OVS
commit- e8a2b5bf ("netdev-dpdk: implement flow offload with rte flow")
when configured with "other_config:hw-offload=true".
4. DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP has been removed from DPDK 18.11.
DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC can now be used to keep the CRC.
Use the correct flag and check it is supported.
5. rte_eth_dev_attach/detach have been removed from DPDK 18.11.
Replace them with rte_dev_probe/remove.
6. Update docs and travis to use DPDK18.11.
This commit squashes the following commits present on the dpdk-latest
branch:
7f021f902bb3 ("netdev-dpdk: Upgrade to dpdk v18.08")
270d9216f1ed ("netdev-dpdk: Set scatter based on capabilities")
bef2cdc8f412 ("netdev-dpdk: Fix returning the field of malloced struct.")
73c1a65167fc ("redhat: change variable used for non-root user support")
eb485f60ce44 ("dpdk: Update to use DPDK 18.11.")
For credit all authors of the original commits above have been added as
co-authors for this commmit.
From: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Co-authored-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
This makes the tests all pass cleanly when Address Sanitizer is enabled.
Acked-by: Mark Michelson <mmichels@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
This patch enables OVS on windows to read system nameserver configuration.
In addition, a new environment variable OVS_RESOLV_CONF is introduced.
If set, it can be used as DNS server configuration file. This variable
is supposed to be used for sandboxing other things. It is documented
accordingly.
Suggested-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Suggested-by: Mark Michelson <mmichels@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yifeng Sun <pkusunyifeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Partial offload support was added to OVS DPDK in OVS 2.10. As such
remove the limitation that OVS DPDK does not support HWOL from the
DPDK install documentation.
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Modify travis linux build script to use the latest
DPDK stable release 17.11.4. Update docs for latest
DPDK stable releases.
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
abs_file_name() believed that a file name that begins with / or contains :
is absolute and that any other file name is relative. On Windows, this is
wrong in at least the following ways:
* / and \ are interchangeable on Windows.
* A name that begins with \\ or // is also absolute.
* A name that begins with X: but not X:\ is not absolute.
* A name with : in some position other than the second position is
not absolute (although it might not be valid either?).
Furthermore, Windows has more than one current working directory (one per
volume letter), so trying to make a file name absolute by just prefixing
the current working directory for the current volume results in silliness.
This patch attempts to fix the problem.
This makes OVS link against shlwapi, which is needed to use
PathIsRelative().
Found by inspection.
Acked-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <aserdean@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Add netstat when mentioning testing. Many check-kmod failures result
when it is not present.
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
A common issue is users pairing the incorrect version of OVS to DPDK
when working outside of the build tree.
To avoid this, this commit updates the OVS DPDK documentation to explicitly
flag that users should consult the OVS to DPDK release mapping in FAQ if
working outside of the OVS build tree.
Suggested-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>
This patch only affects rhel6 spec file.
The rhel6 kmod spec file is renamed from openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
to kmod-openvswitch-rhel6.spec . This is to prepare for the next
patches to support building multiple kernel versions in the main
package. The rename makes the spec file consistent with the resulted
kmod-openvswitch-<version>.rpm, which is the real package with
kernel module files.
Signed-off-by: Martin Xu <martinxu9.ovs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
CC: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
CC: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
CC: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
This patch is a simple implementation for the proposal discussed in
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-August/337038.html and
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-October/340013.html.
It enables ovs-vswitchd and other utilities to use DNS names when specifying
OpenFlow and OVSDB remotes.
Below are some of the features and limitations of this patch:
- Resolving is asynchornous in daemon context, avoiding blocking main loop;
- Resolving is synchronous in general utility context;
- Both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported;
- The resolving API is thread-safe;
- Depends on the unbound library;
- When multiple ip addresses are returned, only the first one is used;
- /etc/nsswitch.conf isn't respected as unbound library doesn't look at it;
- For async-resolving, caller need to retry later; there is no callback.
Signed-off-by: Yifeng Sun <pkusunyifeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
This commit re-introduces the concept of shared mempools as the default
memory model for DPDK devices. Per port mempools are still available but
must be enabled explicitly by a user.
OVS previously used a shared mempool model for ports with the same MTU
and socket configuration. This was replaced by a per port mempool model
to address issues flagged by users such as:
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2016-September/042560.html
However the per port model potentially requires an increase in memory
resource requirements to support the same number of ports and configuration
as the shared port model.
This is considered a blocking factor for current deployments of OVS
when upgrading to future OVS releases as a user may have to redimension
memory for the same deployment configuration. This may not be possible for
users.
This commit resolves the issue by re-introducing shared mempools as
the default memory behaviour in OVS DPDK but also refactors the memory
configuration code to allow for per port mempools.
This patch adds a new global config option, per-port-memory, that
controls the enablement of per port mempools for DPDK devices.
ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:per-port-memory=true
This value defaults to false; to enable per port memory support,
this field should be set to true when setting other global parameters
on init (such as "dpdk-socket-mem", for example). Changing the value at
runtime is not supported, and requires restarting the vswitch
daemon.
The mempool sweep functionality is also replaced with the
sweep functionality from OVS 2.9 found in commits
c77f692 (netdev-dpdk: Free mempool only when no in-use mbufs.)
a7fb0a4 (netdev-dpdk: Add mempool reuse/free debug.)
A new document to discuss the specifics of the memory models and example
memory requirement calculations is also added.
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tiago Lam <tiago.lam@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tiago Lam <tiago.lam@intel.com>
When "dpdk-socket-mem" and "dpdk-alloc-mem" are not specified,
"dpdk-socket-mem" will be set to allocate 1024MB on each NUMA node.
This change will prevent OVS from failing when NIC is attached on
NUMA node 1 and higher. Patch contains documentation update.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Rybka <marcinx.rybka@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Billy O'Mahony <billy.o.mahony@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Billy O'Mahony <billy.o.mahony@intel.com>
Tested-by: Hariprasad Govindharajan <hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
The normal way of retrieving the running DPDK status involves parsing
log files and issuing various incantations of ovs-vsctl and ovs-appctl
commands to determine whether the rte_eal_init successfully started.
This commit adds two new records to reflect the dpdk version, and
the dpdk initialization status.
To support this, the other_config:dpdk-init configuration block supports
the 'true' and 'try' keywords now, instead of just 'true'.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
