> -----Original Message-----
> From: Flavio Leitner <f...@sysclose.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 1:40 PM
> To: Ophir Munk <ophi...@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Ilya Maximets <i.maxim...@samsung.com>; ovs-dev@openvswitch.org;
> Ian Stokes <ian.sto...@intel.com>; Olga Shern <ol...@mellanox.com>;
> Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com>; Asaf Penso <as...@mellanox.com>;
> Roni Bar Yanai <ron...@mellanox.com>; Shahaf Shuler
> <shah...@mellanox.com>; Finn Christensen <f...@napatech.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Move offloading-code into a new file
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:25:45PM +0000, Ophir Munk wrote:
> > If we wanted to switch to a multi-threaded offload model today- we could
> have done it in two steps:
> > 1. Implement a multi-threaded model on current master branch.
> > 2. Do the split.
> >
> > The two steps seem independent. The split is rather technical and there
> are ways to share/pass locks between two files if needed.
> > I don't think that splitting now can limit any future plans to implement a
> multi-threaded offload.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
>
> Do we really need multi-threaded model? I had a hope that this low
> transfer rate to update flows in the NIC would be solved by the HW
> itself.
>
> fbl
>
You will need multi-thread only if OVS is the bottleneck, this not seems to be
the case.
I think this is a HW bug/limitation that should be solved there like you said.
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