On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Traynor, Kevin <kevin.tray...@intel.com> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pravin Shelar [mailto:pshe...@nicira.com] >> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 7:20 AM >> To: Traynor, Kevin >> Cc: dev@openvswitch.org >> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v8] netdev-dpdk: add dpdk vhost-cuse ports >> >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Kevin Traynor <kevin.tray...@intel.com> >> wrote: >> > This patch adds support for a new port type to userspace datapath >> > called dpdkvhost. This allows KVM (QEMU) to offload the servicing >> > of virtio-net devices to its associated dpdkvhost port. Instructions >> > for use are in INSTALL.DPDK. >> > >> > This has been tested on Intel multi-core platforms and with clients >> > that have virtio-net interfaces. >> > >> >> What is required QEMU version for this patch ? > > It's been tested with 2.1.0 and 2.2.0. It has also previously been tested > with 1.6.2 but only the '-mem-path /dev/hugepages -mem-prealloc' flags are > needed to share the hugepage for that version. It won't work with 2.0.0 as > there isn't a way to share the hugepage. >
Thanks for the info. I will try it this week. I had another question about netdev-dpdk mutex, why is it converted to spin_lock? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
