On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Traynor, Kevin <kevin.tray...@intel.com> wrote: > >> -----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. >
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