Re: [ovs-dev] OVS+DPDK rpm

2015-11-28 Thread Vincent JARDIN
On 27/11/2015 19:30, Ben Pfaff wrote: It doesn't make the damnest >difference for the user if "yum install openvswitch" pulls in an additional >package for libraries. Right. This is like building the Linux kernel with all modules configured, or building Emacs with support for both console and X

Re: [ovs-dev] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] dpif-netdev: Add support Intel DPDK based ports.

2014-01-29 Thread Vincent JARDIN
Thomas, First and easy answer: it is open source, so anyone can recompile. So, what's the issue? Without a concept of stable interfaces, it will be difficult to package and distribute RTE libraries, PMD, and DPDK applications. Right now, the obvious path would include packaging the PMD bits t

Re: [ovs-dev] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] dpif-netdev: Add support Intel DPDK based ports.

2014-01-29 Thread Vincent JARDIN
Hi Thomas, On 29/01/2014 09:15, Thomas Graf wrote: > The obvious and usual best practise would be for DPDK to guarantee > ABI stability between minor releases. > > Since dpdk-dev is copied as well, any comments? DPDK's ABIs are not Kernel's ABIs, they are not POSIX, there is no standard. Curre

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC] dpif-netdev: Add support Intel DPDK based ports.

2014-01-28 Thread Vincent JARDIN
Hi Pravin, >> Few feature questions: - what's about the vNIC supports (toward the guests)? - what's about IPsec support (VxLAN over IPsec for instance)? I do not understand how your patch will solve those 2 cases. At this point I wanted to get basic DPDK support in OVS, once that is done

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC] dpif-netdev: Add support Intel DPDK based ports.

2014-01-28 Thread Vincent JARDIN
Hi Pravin, Yes, it is a good integration with http://dpdk.org Few feature questions: - what's about the vNIC supports (toward the guests)? - what's about IPsec support (VxLAN over IPsec for instance)? I do not understand how your patch will solve those 2 cases. This is based a patch from G