Justin, Is there an anticipated date on when 2.4 will be available?
‹Gil On 9/24/14, 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
