> > Thanks Flavio for checking and Daniel for your consideration. > Indeed the issue exists in 2.5 branch. > > We are treating this more in the bucket of a performance bug fix than a > feature. > > Any specific testing that you would like to see run to help reduce > your concern related to changes to the core modules ? > > Ciara, what's your opinion on these changes for a backport ?
I'm of the same opinion as yourself and Flavio that this is more a fix than a feature. I'd like to see it backported. But I understand there may be some risk associated with due to the nature of the changes. Thanks, Ciara > > Thanks > Vinod > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniele Di Proietto [mailto:diproiet...@vmware.com] > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 3:49 PM > To: Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com>; Vinod, Chegu > <chegu_vi...@hpe.com> > Cc: kris...@redhat.com; ovs-dev <dev@openvswitch.org>; Loftus, Ciara > <ciara.lof...@intel.com> > Subject: Re: Backport Request: dpif-netdev: Remove PMD latency on > seq_mutex > > I'm not sure I'm 100% comfortable back porting this to branch-2.5 > > I see the change more as a feature rather than a bugfix. > > Also it touches some core modules (seq and rcu) in a non trivial way. > > > What do you guys think? > > Thanks, > > Daniele > > On 22/07/2016 15:03, "Flavio Leitner" <f...@redhat.com> wrote: > > >(adding ovs-dev mailing list and more people interesting on the > >backport to CC) > > > >On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 05:31:52AM +0000, Vinod, Chegu wrote: > >> Hi Flavio, Karl, > >> > >> Is there a version of the following fix available that is compatible with > >> OVS > 2.5? > >> > >> > https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/9dede5cff553d7c4e074f04c52 > 5 > >> c1417eb209363 > >> > >> If yes can it backported to the 2.5 branch ? > > > >branch-2.5 is affected by the same issue. I tested the patch from > >branch master (cherry-pick) and it solved the issue. > > > >Daniele, > > > >What do you think? If you agree, do you need me to post the backported > >patch or is it enough for you to cherry-pick? > > > >Thanks, > >-- > >fbl _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev