> -----Original Message----- > From: Flavio Leitner [mailto:fbl at sysclose.org] > Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 11:51 PM > To: Traynor, Kevin > Cc: dev at openvswitch.org; users at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] OVS with DPDK Meetup notes > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 05:56:08PM +0000, Traynor, Kevin wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Just wanted to post some summary notes on the recent OVS with DPDK Meetup > we > > had after the OVS conference. Thanks to everyone for the often lively > discussion. > > I've collated and condensed Maryam's notes (Thank you Maryam) with my own. > > Corrections and additions are welcome. > > Thanks for having organized the event and for the good notes. > > > > Usability > > ========== > > * Single binary for OVS/OVS with DPDK and static vs. dynamic linking > > - Discussion around deployment and what the best model is. > > - Flavio has posted a mail on this > > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-November/062599.html > > Let us know if you find a performance difference between static vs > dynamic linking. We might be able to accommodate both options in > the same spec, but it seems we should go with shared linking only > to keep it simple for now. >
Yes, will do. I seem to recall from when we looked at this on a previous project it was a few hundred kpps but it was a long time ago, so I'm not certain how many. > > > Features > > ======== > > * Multiqueue vhost-user > > - Looks really promising - will help us scale out performance to the VM. > > I see that vhost PMD is moving and if it gets accepted, it would > be a nice clean up for OVS. Do you know if there is someone working > on this already? I agree, it should simplify the code a lot. Ciara reviewed it and did a quick integration to see if the api would work. The patch was churning quite a bit, so we decided to hold off doing any more work with it for the time being. > > > * dpdkr/ivshmem > > - Still useful. Check/Update documentation to ensure limitations are > clear. > > Yeah, same thing here. > > Thanks, > fbl
