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Do not set CPU resources to ovs-vswitch DPDK pod

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When DPDK is enbaled, configuring CPU resource limits
through Kubernetes affects packet throughput adversely.
DPDK PMD cores could not get 100% busy.

They need to be configured by isolating them in host grub
and later through PMD core mask.

Change-Id: Ia80880302b9c5c02fdb1c00cb62f6640860e898e
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Reddy, Hemachandra (hr858f) 2020-01-20 19:05:05 +00:00
parent 6898fa7f9e
commit 70d93625e8
1 changed files with 6 additions and 6 deletions
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openvswitch/templates/daemonset-ovs-vswitchd.yaml
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@ -94,15 +94,15 @@ spec:
{{/* Run the container in priviledged mode due to the need for root
permissions when using the uio_pci_generic driver. */}}
{{- $_ := set $envAll.Values.pod.security_context.openvswitch_vswitchd.container.vswitchd "privileged" true -}}
{{/* Limiting CPU cores would severely affect packet throughput
It should be handled through lcore and pmd core masks. */}}
{{- if .Values.pod.resources.enabled }}
{{ $_ := unset $envAll.Values.pod.resources.ovs.vswitchd.requests "cpu" }}
{{ $_ := unset $envAll.Values.pod.resources.ovs.vswitchd.limits "cpu" }}
{{- end }}
{{- end }}
{{ tuple $envAll "openvswitch_vswitchd" | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.image" | indent 10 }}
{{ dict "envAll" $envAll "application" "openvswitch_vswitchd" "container" "vswitchd" | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.kubernetes_container_security_context" | indent 10 }}
{{- if .Values.conf.ovs_dpdk.enabled }}
{{/* When running with DPDK, we need to specify the type and amount of hugepages.
The following line enables resource handling in general, but the type and amount
of hugepages must still be defined in the values.yaml.*/}}
{{ $_ := set $envAll.Values.pod.resources "enabled" true }}
{{- end }}
{{ tuple $envAll $envAll.Values.pod.resources.ovs.vswitchd | include "helm-toolkit.snippets.kubernetes_resources" | indent 10 }}
# ensures this container can speak to the ovs database
# successfully before its marked as ready