netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] openvswitch: Queue upcalls to userspace in per-port round-robin order

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Date:   Tue, 7 Aug 2018 15:39:23 +0200
From:   Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>
To:     Pravin Shelar <pshelar@....org>
Cc:     Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>,
        Justin Pettit <jpettit@...are.com>,
        Greg Rose <gvrose8192@...il.com>, Ben Pfaff <blp@....org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, ovs dev <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
        Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>, Aaron <aconole@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] openvswitch: Queue upcalls to userspace in
 per-port round-robin order

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 15:31:11 +0200
Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com> wrote:

> I would instead try to address the concerns that you had about the
> original patch adding fairness in the kernel, rather than trying to
> make the issue appear less severe in ovs-vswitchd.

And, by the way, if we introduce a way to configure the possible
fairness algorithms via netlink, we can also rather easily allow
ovs-vswitchd to disable fairness on kernel side altogether, should it
be needed.

-- 
Stefano