Can I try it - is it stable enough ? Does the does say enough to set it up?
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 24, 2014, at 5:49 PM, Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com> wrote: > >> On September 19, 2014 at 9:39:09 AM, MCGRATH, GIL (gm2...@att.com) wrote: >> I am looking into the use of DPDK with OVS. >> >> I am a bit confused on the following: >> >> * What is the status of DPDK support in OVS? > > It's still a work in progress, but it is functional in our "master" branch, > and we're getting impressive performance with it. > >> * What releases does this work or will work in? > > It's not in a current release yet, but it will be included as part of OVS 2.4. > >> * What is the status of the DPDK support githiub openvswitch/ovs? > > It is working. For NFV and vswitch applications, there are two bigs > omissions at the moment. First, there is no tunneling support, but that is > being actively worked on. Second, there's no vhost support, which prevents > getting traffic to VMs. We expect to get a contribution for that support in > the next couple of weeks. Both of these issues should be resolved before OVS > 2.4 is released. > >> * What is the relationship to the openvswitch in github.com/01org/dpdk-ovs? > > The 01.org project pre-dates the mainstream OVS work. The one that's being > developed as part of the OVS mainstream will follow OVS development going > forward, and expect it to perform better than the one from 01.org. Intel has > been contributing to our mainstream release as well. > > --Justin > > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
