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

2014-01-29 Thread Pravin Shelar
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Thomas Graf wrote: > On 01/28/2014 02:48 AM, pshe...@nicira.com wrote: >> >> From: Pravin B Shelar >> >> Following patch adds DPDK netdev-class to userspace datapath. >> Approach taken in this patch differs from Intel® DPDK vSwitch >> where DPDK datapath switching

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

2014-01-29 Thread Thomas Graf
On 01/28/2014 02:48 AM, pshe...@nicira.com wrote: From: Pravin B Shelar Following patch adds DPDK netdev-class to userspace datapath. Approach taken in this patch differs from Intel® DPDK vSwitch where DPDK datapath switching is done in saparate process. This patch adds support for DPDK type p

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

2014-01-29 Thread Thomas Graf
On 01/28/2014 07:17 PM, Pravin Shelar wrote: Right, version mismatch will not work. API provided by DPDK are not stable, So OVS has to be built for different releases for now. I do not see how we can fix it from OVS side. DPDK needs to standardize API, Actually OVS also needs more API, like DPDK

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 Pravin Shelar
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Thomas Graf wrote: > On 01/28/2014 03:47 PM, Vincent JARDIN wrote: >> >> 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

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

2014-01-28 Thread Pravin Shelar
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Thomas Graf wrote: > On 01/28/2014 02:48 AM, pshe...@nicira.com wrote: >> >> From: Pravin B Shelar >> >> Following patch adds DPDK netdev-class to userspace datapath. >> Approach taken in this patch differs from Intel® DPDK vSwitch >> where DPDK datapath switching

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

2014-01-28 Thread Pravin Shelar
Hi Vincent, On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Vincent JARDIN wrote: > 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

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

2014-01-28 Thread Thomas Graf
On 01/28/2014 03:47 PM, Vincent JARDIN wrote: 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 would like to extend this question to

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

2014-01-28 Thread Thomas Graf
On 01/28/2014 02:48 AM, pshe...@nicira.com wrote: From: Pravin B Shelar Following patch adds DPDK netdev-class to userspace datapath. Approach taken in this patch differs from Intel® DPDK vSwitch where DPDK datapath switching is done in saparate process. This patch adds support for DPDK type p

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

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

2014-01-27 Thread Pravin Shelar
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 05:48:35PM -0800, pshe...@nicira.com wrote: >> From: Pravin B Shelar >> >> Following patch adds DPDK netdev-class to userspace datapath. >> Approach taken in this patch differs from Intel?? DPDK vSwitch >> where DPDK data

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

2014-01-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 05:48:35PM -0800, pshe...@nicira.com wrote: > From: Pravin B Shelar > > Following patch adds DPDK netdev-class to userspace datapath. > Approach taken in this patch differs from Intel?? DPDK vSwitch > where DPDK datapath switching is done in saparate process. This > patch