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| author |   Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> | 2016-09-05 02:42:19 -0400 |
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| committer |   Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com> | 2016-09-14 14:43:49 +0000 |
| commit | a325eb33fbe408243209b19f2d9cc288b2e57548 (patch) | |
| tree | 035b86339e0ca4bfe2ff8ed6b9d2915dd9022bd6 /vnfs | |
| parent | acdb444a54124834acdde45107062eaf1452c119 (diff) | |
merge_buffers: Add option to disable merge buffer on qemu startup
In cases with VHost user and non-jumbo frame scenarios we can
disable merge buffers on the guest NICS to improve performance.
This patch adds this option to the 04_vnf conf file.
JIRA: VSPERF-388
Change-Id: Ic1f776e90fdccaa5d5a0c952c96811a8747fe936
Signed-off-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'vnfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | vnfs/qemu/qemu_dpdk_vhost_user.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/vnfs/qemu/qemu_dpdk_vhost_user.py b/vnfs/qemu/qemu_dpdk_vhost_user.py index fc46aba1..794a4772 100644 --- a/vnfs/qemu/qemu_dpdk_vhost_user.py +++ b/vnfs/qemu/qemu_dpdk_vhost_user.py @@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ class QemuDpdkVhostUser(IVnfQemu): else: queue_str, mq_vector_str = '', '' + # Guest merge buffer setting + if S.getValue('GUEST_NIC_MERGE_BUFFERS_DISABLE')[self._number]: + merge_buff = 'mrg_rxbuf=off,' + else: + merge_buff = '' + # calculate index of first interface, i.e. check how many # interfaces has been created for previous VMs, where 1st NIC # of 1st VM has index 0 @@ -60,7 +66,8 @@ class QemuDpdkVhostUser(IVnfQemu): '-device', 'virtio-net-pci,mac=' + self._nics[nic]['mac'] + - ',netdev=' + net + ',csum=off,gso=off,' + + ',netdev=' + net + ',csum=off,' + merge_buff + + 'gso=off,' + 'guest_tso4=off,guest_tso6=off,guest_ecn=off' + mq_vector_str, ] |