Re: DPDK and energy efficiency

[Jared Geiger <jared () compuwizz net>]

"set system default dataplane cpu-affinity 3-7" is what I have set for my
use case. Technically its 5 cores out of 8 total, but 4 are polling cores
and 1 manages those 4. Then the control plane is 3 plus the leftover cycles
of the 1 manager core.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 2:04 PM Etienne Depasquale <edepa () ieee org> wrote:

> Thanks Jared; that's very interesting.
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> Earlier today, I had a private exchange of emails regarding the
> progressive development of architectures specific to the domain of
> high-speed networking functions. Your note reinforces the notion that this
> “hard” partitioning of cores is a key part of the DSA (domain-specific
> architecture) here.
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> Sent from my Windows 10 device
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> *From: *Jared Geiger <jared () compuwizz net>
> *Sent: *Monday, 22 February 2021 20:53
> *To: *NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> *Subject: *Re: DPDK and energy efficiency
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> DANOS lets you specify how many dataplane cores you use versus control
> plane cores. So if you put a 16 core host in to handle 2GB of traffic, you
> can adjust the dataplane worker cores as needed. Control plane cores don't
> stay at 100% utilization.
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> I use that technique plus DANOS runs on VMware (not oversubscribed) which
> allows me to use the hardware for other VMs. NICS are attached to the VM
> via PCI Passthrough which helps eliminate the overhead to the VMware
> hypervisor itself.
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> I have an 8 core VM with 4 cores set to dataplane and 4 to control plane.
> The 4 control plane cores are typically idle only processing BGP route
> updates, SNMP, logs, etc.
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> ~Jared
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> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 11:30 PM Etienne-Victor Depasquale <edepa () ieee org>
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> Hello folks,
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> I've just followed a thread regarding use of CGNAT and noted a suggestion
> (regarding DANOS) that includes use of DPDK.
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> As I'm interested in the breadth of adoption of DPDK, and as I'm a
> researcher into energy and power efficiency, I'd love to hear your feedback
> on your use of power consumption control by DPDK.
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> I've drawn up a bare-bones, 2-question survey at this link:
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> https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/J886DPY.
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> Responses have been set to anonymous.
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> Cheers,
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> Etienne
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> Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale
> Assistant Lecturer
> Department of Communications & Computer Engineering
> Faculty of Information & Communication Technology
> University of Malta
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> Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale