On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:14 PM, john paul <jpav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am getting confused in the architecture of ovs, the > netdev-provider is for hardware specific interfaces like eth0, and after > adding interface when traffic start it will go through datapath and > dpif-provider to userspace this means whenever packet comes to device dose > it go through netdev-provider,netdev then towords datapath and dpif provider > for lookup ?
In the userspace datapath, yes. Otherwise, in the kernel datapath netdevs are just used for device information and packets go through the kernel directly. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
