On May 30, 2013, at 6:13 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:16 PM, James Page <james.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> Hi OpenvSwitch Devs >> >> Ubuntu Saucy development has been open for a while and the Ubuntu kernel >> team are currently targeting either Linux 3.9 or 3.10 for this release. >> >> Currently the 1.9.0 DKMS source is unhappy with 3.9 - I've hacked on it for >> a bit and although it definitely possible to backport/fixup enough to make >> it work with Linux >= 3.9 I wondered whether 1.10 would make a better base; >> I was able to get things up and running with the following commits: >> >> f8dfbcb77d7678fa19b4de0f94118b713f74ffb8: datapath: hlist: drop the node >> parameter from iterators >> 29285b6286493965a36ae3eff5983457f85cd087: datapath: Backport simplified >> hlist iterators. >> >> plus the normal change to datapath.c to increase the range of supported >> kernel versions. >> >> Also I think the VXLAN support in 1.10 is of interest to OpenStack users >> (the Havana release should grow support for this). The version of >> OpenvSwitch that ships with Saucy will also be provided to support OpenStack >> Havana on Ubuntu 12.04. > > I would agree that 1.10 is probably the way to go at this point due to > VXLAN support (note that it's only point-to-point, no multicast). > However, as Pravin mentioned it still needs some additional patches to > support 3.9.
I also concur on 1.10, especially given the work currently going on in Havana to enable the OVS VXLAN point-to-point support in the Open vSwitch plugin. > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
