Re: [ovs-dev] Offloading OVS Flows to the device.

2015-04-02 Thread David Christensen
> > I thought of creating one "dummy netdev" per function which will represent > > each function in open vswitch. These ports can be treated like logical > > connection to the functions. Whenever there is flow-miss in the device, it > will > > punt the packet to the linux kernel via respective "dum

Re: [ovs-dev] OVS Offload Decision Proposal

2015-03-04 Thread David Christensen
> > That said, my working assumptions are: > > > > * That Open vSwitch may manage flow offloads from user-space. This is as > > opposed to them being transparently handled in the datapath. This does > > not preclude the existence of transparent offloading in the datapath. > > But rather limit

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v1 4/4] openvswitch: Userspace tunneling.

2014-10-27 Thread David Christensen
> >> /** > >> * enum ovs_action_attr - Action types. > >> * > >> @@ -633,6 +642,10 @@ enum ovs_action_attr { > >> * data immediately followed by a > mask. > >> * The data must be zero for the > unmasked > >>

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v1 0/4] openvswitch: DPDK Tunneling.

2014-10-21 Thread David Christensen
> Following series adds support for tunneling entirely in userspace. > Even though this is targeted for DPDK based device, this should > work on any platform that support netdev datapath. > > To make tunneling work it need special configuration, There is > README-native-tunneling file which has de