> -----Original Message----- > From: Pravin Shelar [mailto:pshe...@nicira.com] > Sent: Friday, April 3, 2015 6:32 AM > To: Traynor, Kevin > Cc: Flavio Leitner; Rogers, Gerald; dev@openvswitch.org > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC 1/1] netdev-dpdk: add dpdk vhost-user ports > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Traynor, Kevin <kevin.tray...@intel.com> > wrote: > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Pravin Shelar > >> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 6:08 PM > >> To: Flavio Leitner > >> Cc: dev@openvswitch.org > >> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC 1/1] netdev-dpdk: add dpdk vhost-user > ports > >> > >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Flavio Leitner <f...@sysclose.org> wrote: > >> > On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:53:14 -0700 > >> > Pravin Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Ciara Loftus > >> >> <ciara.lof...@intel.com> wrote: > >> >> > This patch adds support for a new port type to the userspace > >> >> > datapath called dpdkvhostuser. It adds to the existing > >> >> > infrastructure of vhost-cuse, however disables vhost-cuse ports in > >> >> > favour of vhost-user ports. > >> >> > > >> >> > A new dpdkvhostuser port will create a unix domain socket which when > >> >> > provided to QEMU is used to facilitate communication between the > >> >> > virtio-net device on the VM and the OVS port. > >> >> > > >> >> Thanks for the patch. I have pushed OVS DPDK vHost cuse patch. Once we > >> >> add support for vhost user, vhost-cuse support should be dropped. > >> > > >> > Do you mean to literally take vhost-cuse out of the code? If so, yes, > >> > I think that makes sense. > >> > > >> > >> Yes. thats what I meant. > > > > One issue with removing is that vhost-user is only supported from QEMU > 2.1.0 > > onwards. If anyone is using an older version of QEMU they would not be able > > to use vhost-user, whereas vhost-cuse will support older versions of QEMU. > > > > Are there distribution still using older QEMU?
I had a scan around for qemu versions - if anyone wants to correct/add please do so. Fedora 21: 2.1.3 Fedora 20: 1.6.2 CentOS 7/ RHEL 7.0: 1.5.3 RHEL 7.1: 2.1 Ubuntu 14.10: 2.1 Ubuntu 14.04: 2.0.0 Debian wheezy-backports: 2.1 Debian wheezy: 1.1.2 OpenSuse 13.2: 2.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
