> -----Original Message----- > From: Pravin Shelar [mailto:pshe...@nicira.com] > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 5:39 PM > To: Traynor, Kevin > Cc: dev@openvswitch.org > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v8] netdev-dpdk: add dpdk vhost-cuse ports > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Traynor, Kevin > <kevin.tray...@intel.com> wrote: > > > >> -----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 ' > > > But the mutex is not used in packet rx or tx path. So it should not matter.
Ok, understand. If you want me to re-spin I can do that - it should be just a search and replace. > > > 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
