RHEL OSP 10/11 – OVS+DPDK Tunables

Tunables for Dell R630s for use when deploying OVS+DPDK [terminal] OSP 10/11 DPDK Tunables # R630 NUMA locality - CPUs node 0 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 # node 1 cpus: 1 3 5 7 … Continue reading RHEL OSP 10/11 – OVS+DPDK Tunables

OpenStack: Configuring SR-IOV in RHEL OSP 8

Introduction This article documents the configuration used to configure SR-IOV in OSP 8/Liberty on Dell hardware Compute Node Configuration This section will outline the changes needed to configure SR-IOV on each Compute Node. Bios Configuration on Dell Compute Nodes First, you will need to ssh to the drac of each Compute Node. Then, type the … Continue reading OpenStack: Configuring SR-IOV in RHEL OSP 8

NUMA Node to PCI Slot Mapping in Red Hat Enterpise Linux

  Sandybridge I/O Controller to PCI-E Mapping   Using a few simple commands you can easily map a PCI slot back to its directly connected NUMA node. This information comes in very handy when implementing NFV leveraged technologies such as CPU Pinning and SRIOV.   First, you will need to install hwloc and hwloc-gui, if it is … Continue reading NUMA Node to PCI Slot Mapping in Red Hat Enterpise Linux