On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 03:08:11PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote: > Bhanuprakash Bodireddy <bhanuprakash.bodire...@intel.com> writes: > > > Increase the DPDK pmd thread scheduling priority by lowering the nice > > value. This will advise the kernel scheduler to prioritize pmd thread > > over other processes. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bhanuprakash Bodireddy <bhanuprakash.bodire...@intel.com> > > --- > > Sorry for jumping into this so late. Is there a measured benefit to > this patch? Do you have a test case to reproduce the effect you're > seeing? Might it be better to write up documentation for the user > describing chrt/nice/renice utilities?
I haven't tested this myself but I presume that on a system without any task or CPU isolation tuning, this would help the PMD to provide better performance out-of-the-box. -- Flavio _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
