Bug 1860436

Summary: [RFE] OVS-DPDK: Disable EMC and use SMC by default
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath Reporter: Flavio Leitner <fleitner>
Component: openvswitch2.13Assignee: Paolo Valerio <pvalerio>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Jean-Tsung Hsiao <jhsiao>
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Version: FDP 20.ECC: ctrautma, jhsiao, ralongi
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Description Flavio Leitner 2020-07-24 14:42:06 UTC
Description of problem:

The performance team did an analysis and found that SMC scales better some time ago:

https://www.openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2018/5/1330-theurer.pdf


This is a request to change the default to be EMC off and SMC on if the results remain the same.