On 01/29/2014 05:34 PM, Vincent JARDIN wrote: > Thomas, > > First and easy answer: it is open source, so anyone can recompile. So, > what's the issue?
I'm talking from a pure distribution perspective here: Requiring to recompile all DPDK based applications to distribute a bugfix or to add support for a new PMD is not ideal. So ideally OVS would have the possibility to link against the shared library long term. > I get lost: do you mean ABI + API toward the PMDs or towards the > applications using the librte ? Towards the PMDs is more straight forward at first so it seems logical to focus on that first. A stable API and ABI for librte seems required as well long term as DPDK does offer shared libraries but I realize that this is a stretch goal in the initial phase.
