Re: [ovs-dev] [ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch STT support

2015-02-03 Thread John Xiao
a lawyer to determine your rights as > far as patents go. > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:11 PM, John Xiao wrote: >> Thanks Jesse! >> >> That's true that there is no such patch yet. >> Pravin just mentioned "I will send out OVS userspace patch on ovs-dev >

Re: [ovs-dev] [ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch STT support

2015-02-03 Thread John Xiao
code is generally licensed under Apache 2 but I don't think > anyone has proposed such patches to date. > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 6:07 PM, John Xiao wrote: >> Thanks Ben! >> >> For user space tunneling patches, I guess they will be under Apache >> Licen

Re: [ovs-dev] [ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch STT support

2015-02-03 Thread John Xiao
800, John Xiao wrote: >> One question on STT IP, is it free to use STT in commercial products? >> I believe Nicira has patents on this. > > Assuming that Nicira does, the patches are being offered by the patent > holder under GPLv2, see http://en.swpat.or

[ovs-dev] [ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch STT support

2015-02-02 Thread John Xiao
Thanks Pravin for sharing the patch. One question on STT IP, is it free to use STT in commercial products? I believe Nicira has patents on this. Thanks, John On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Pravin Shelar wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:20 AM, John W. Linville > wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 02, 20

Re: [ovs-dev] OVS DPDK support technical direction

2014-12-19 Thread John Xiao
-Original Message- >> From: John Xiao [mailto:johnxiao.cl...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 2:46 PM >> To: Traynor, Kevin >> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] OVS DPDK support technical direction >> >> Hi Kevin, >> >> The performance number

Re: [ovs-dev] OVS DPDK support technical direction

2014-12-18 Thread John Xiao
k at the rates that Madhu > Challa presented at the OVS Fall Conference on Slide 3 > http://openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2014/18/1600-ovs_perf.pptx > > Thanks, > Kevin. > >> -Original Message- >> From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of John Xiao &

[ovs-dev] OVS DPDK support technical direction

2014-12-16 Thread John Xiao
Hi, As we know that Intel stopped its effort on OVDK and OVS DPDK support will all be in OVS upstream, and I have one question after digging OVDK and OVS DPDK architecture: - IMHO, OVS DPDK support can follow the existing "fast/slow path" model as being done in OVS linux kernel, i.e. just another