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

[Ben Pfaff <blp-LZ6Gd1LRuIk@public.gmane.org>]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 02:43:24AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 16:01:08 -0700
> Ben Pfaff <blp-LZ6Gd1LRuIk@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I would be very pleased if we could integrate a simple mechanism for
> > fairness, based for now on some simple criteria like the source port,
> > but thinking ahead to how we could later make it gracefully extensible
> > to consider more general and possibly customizable criteria.
> 
> We could change the patch so that instead of just using the vport for
> round-robin queue insertion, we generalise that and use "buckets"
> instead of vports, and have a set of possible functions that are called
> instead of using port_no directly in ovs_dp_upcall_queue_roundrobin(),
> making this configurable via netlink, per datapath.
> 
> We could implement selection based on source port or a hash on the
> source 5-tuple, and the relevant bits of
> ovs_dp_upcall_queue_roundrobin() would look like this:

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> What do you think?

I'd support that.  Thanks.