Hi, As we know that Intel stopped its effort on OVDK and OVS DPDK support will all be in OVS upstream, and I have one question after digging OVDK and OVS DPDK architecture:
- IMHO, OVS DPDK support can follow the existing "fast/slow path" model as being done in OVS linux kernel, i.e. just another fast path happening in DPDK threads, and this is pretty much the mechanism used by OVDK by extending a new kind of dpif provider. But for upstream OVS DPDK support, I can only see netdev extension, I don't know what's the reason behind, can anybody post any discussion relevant on this if any? Do we see huge benefit when every packet going through "netdev" type of data path instead of a fast/slow path fashion? or I missed anything obvious? Thanks, John _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
