Thanks for the patch, it looks good to me.
Minor comment: could you put the changelog after "---" next time, otherwise
it ends up in the commit message?
I made a few minor style fixes and applied this to master.
I noticed that this introduces a lot of sparse warnings due to the usage of
*intrin.
This commit introduces support for DPDK 16.07 and consequently breaks
compatibility with DPDK 16.04.
DPDK 16.07 introduces some changes to various APIs. These have been
updated in OVS, including:
* xstats API: changes to structure of xstats
* vhost API: replace virtio-net references with 'vid'
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