> -----Original Message----- > From: Pravin Shelar [mailto:pshe...@nicira.com] > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 2:46 AM > To: Traynor, Kevin > Cc: dev@openvswitch.org > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v8] netdev-dpdk: add dpdk vhost-cuse ports > > 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?
We changed it based on this review comment: ' - ovs-mutex is bit heavy weight, can you use rte-spin-lock ' There was a few different mutexes, so we thought it was a general comment and converted them to spinlocks. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
