On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:08 PM, 李强 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all. > I came up with some problems when I studied the openvswitch. > Can you explain it to me what a datapath definitely mean? Why it must > be implented in kernel mode? If I build openvswitch in userspace, does that > mean the advantage of openvswitch is missing?
A datapath is just the portion that handles fast path packet processing. The kernel version has higher performance but requires more privileges to install and is OS-specific. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
