On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:03:18AM -0700, Pravin wrote: > This patch adds PMD type netdev for netdevice with poll-mode > drivers. Since there is no way to get signal on a packet recv > from these devices we need to poll them in busy loop. So minimize > system call overhead this patch uses dpif-thread exclusively > for PMD devices and rest of devices which needs system calls to > do IO are moved to dpif-netdev-run(). > PMD device like DPDK work in userspace so there is no system call > overhead for them. > > Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <[email protected]> > --- > v1-v2: > Fixed according to comments from Ben. > Since we have ref on port no need to take port_rwlock. So Removed > port_rwlock thread sefty checks from fast-path functions.
Thanks for fixing the issues I reported. I don't think I need to review this again. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
