On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:46:03AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Also at least I haven't personally seen such concerns from anybody > concretely, I've only heard speculation "some say, some users might not want > dpdk..." Which is just silly, its just a library which does absolutely > nothing unless you choose to enable it in OVS config. > > What is reasonable is that upstream allows OVS to be built without DPDK. > Distro packaging is a completely different ball-game where packages are > typically built with maximum capabilities. It doesn't make the damnest > difference for the user if "yum install openvswitch" pulls in an additional > package for libraries.
Right. This is like building the Linux kernel with all modules configured, or building Emacs with support for both console and X interfaces. There is little penalty and great increase in convenience. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
