FYI All I've dropped this patch. Ethan
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 12:51:11PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote: >> > 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. > > It's a philosophical question really, and you gave me the > philosophical answer that I wanted. Thanks, that makes sense. > > At any rate I don't use this script and this script is your baby, so > don't let me block anything in any case. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
