> 30/06/2020 18:37, Stokes, Ian: > > > This series allows OVS to consume the DPDK libraries appropriately > > > (static and > > > shared) and simplifies the build. > > > When building OVS with DPDK, without this patch, the linker would > > > always pick the shared libraries over static even after specifying the - > Bstatic flag. > > > With this patch, no such behavior is observed. So, it would be very > > > helpful for the OVS community if this patch is merged in DPDK. > > > > > > I would also ask this series to be back ported to 19.11 as OVS can > > > immediately consume it on the latest master instead of waiting on > > > the next DPDK release i.e > > > 20.11 > > > > +1, if this would be possible to apply to 19.11 as a backport it would > > enable > OVS to move quicker and update the OVS Travis as well as docs and build > scripts rather than waiting for DPDK 20.11. Sunil has already been working on > these changes I believe. > > > > Alternatively if it cant be backported to 19.11, then possibly we could look > at merging Sunil's patches to the dpdk-latest branch in OVS once makefiles > are deprecated in DPDK master? > > Why waiting for makefiles to be deprecated? > These patches are merged in latest DPDK, so you can proceed in OVS. > >
Good point, Sunil has a patchset ready to go, will have him post them to the OVS ML for dpdk-latest branch today. Regards Ian
