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| author | Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> | 2022-01-24 17:58:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org> | 2022-01-31 21:36:59 +0100 |
| commit | a7f52b7eb657a004b466bd0f8888e5b563ae2b27 (patch) | |
| tree | ae3af4a83d2c9d96e0383b5f42d9bcb0c0640ea5 /vswitchd | |
| parent | 53a540e5311c836b58c7b27a1afb68b6f52bdb75 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-a7f52b7eb657a004b466bd0f8888e5b563ae2b27.tar.gz | |
vswitchd.xml: Add missing tx-steering PMD option.
This patch documents PMD's other_config:tx-steering option.
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'vswitchd')
| -rw-r--r-- | vswitchd/vswitch.xml | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml index 064e0facf..0c6632617 100644 --- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml +++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml @@ -3391,6 +3391,29 @@ ovs-vsctl add-port br0 p0 -- set Interface p0 type=patch options:peer=p1 \ </ul> <p>This option may only be used with dpdk VF representors.</p> </column> + + <column name="other_config" key="tx-steering" + type='{"type": "string", + "enum": ["set", ["thread", "hash"]]}'> + <p> + Specifies the Tx steering mode for the interface. + </p> + <p> + <code>thread</code> enables static (1:1) thread-to-txq mapping when + the number of Tx queues is greater than number of PMD threads, and + dynamic (N:1) mapping if equal or lower. In this mode a single thread + can not use more than 1 transmit queue of a given port. + </p> + <p> + <code>hash</code> enables hash-based Tx steering, which distributes + the packets on all the transmit queues based on their 5-tuples + hashes. + </p> + <p> + Defaults to <code>thread</code>. + </p> + </column> + </group> <group title="EMC (Exact Match Cache) Configuration"> |