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Date:   Sat, 17 Sep 2016 19:07:30 -0700
From:   pravin shelar <pshelar@....org>
To:     Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        ovs dev <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] openvswitch: use percpu flow stats

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
<cascardo@...hat.com> wrote:
> Instead of using flow stats per NUMA node, use it per CPU. When using
> megaflows, the stats lock can be a bottleneck in scalability.
>
> On a E5-2690 12-core system, usual throughput went from ~4Mpps to
> ~15Mpps when forwarding between two 40GbE ports with a single flow
> configured on the datapath.
>
> This has been tested on a system with possible CPUs 0-7,16-23. After
> module removal, there were no corruption on the slab cache.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...hat.com>
> Cc: pravin shelar <pshelar@....org>

Looks good.

Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>

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