> Is there any point to testing OVS in a configuration that we won't > distribute?
This is a subject in which there could legitimately be many points of view, but I'll take a stab at explaining how I think about it. To answer your question: In general no, but with DPDK yes. If you look at how stock OVS is typically deployed, a vendor (Redhat, Debian, etc), builds it in a portable fashion and distributes binaries to whoever wants them. In this case, I completely agree that these sorts of compiler optimizations don't make sense. With DPDK I think the situation is slightly different. The DPDK libraries are specifically designed for people to heavily tune the applications built on top of them, and I suspect the people interested in OVS on DPDK at this point are the same. To the extent that OVS on DPDK is deployed, it will be in very specific circumstances where performance is critical and these sorts of compile time optimizations are typical. Anyways that's my thinking on it. If you prefer, I could make it an option, but for the dev script I don't think it really matters that much. Keep in mind that real numbers we publish are based on official builds which don't use this script. Ethan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
