Bug 1944564

Summary: [RFE] Make OVS-DPDK more deterministic
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath Reporter: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro>
Component: openvswitch2.15Assignee: Michael Santana <msantana>
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Version: FDP 21.ACC: ctrautma, jhsiao, ralongi
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Description Eelco Chaudron 2021-03-30 08:31:27 UTC
Avoid system calls and other “long” interruptions in the datapath, i.e. PMD threads.

Comment 2 Eelco Chaudron 2023-05-17 09:17:37 UTC
Sent patch upstream to DPDK to add the OVS requirements:

https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=28022

Comment 3 Eelco Chaudron 2023-06-05 13:45:04 UTC
We have another OVS patch that is part of this feature:

  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/168597229126.1652700.11280515282374459957.stgit@ebuild/

Also, the DPDK patch was excepted, and will be available in the next DPDK release:

  https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=27626