Re: [ovs-dev] Datpath in openVswitch

2013-11-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:29:34AM +, Vivek Kumar (EPG) wrote: > data flow means Ethernet net packet traversing, so my doubt is: > > 1) After the packet receiving from Ethernet driver packet will traverse in > kernel space or in user space. > 2) This rule is applicable for all packet or fi

Re: [ovs-dev] Datpath in openVswitch

2013-11-20 Thread Vivek Kumar (EPG)
Hi Ben, Thanks a lot for response. data flow means Ethernet net packet traversing, so my doubt is: 1) After the packet receiving from Ethernet driver packet will traverse in kernel space or in user space. 2) This rule is applicable for all packet or first packet Thanks, Vivek -Origin

Re: [ovs-dev] Datpath in openVswitch

2013-11-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:40:31AM +, Vivek Kumar (EPG) wrote: > 1) could you please confirm in OpenVswitch data flow to be @ kernel level or > user level. What's a data flow? > 2) As some document says that When the first packet of a flow comes to > the datapath, the datapath transmit it to

[ovs-dev] Datpath in openVswitch

2013-11-20 Thread Vivek Kumar (EPG)
Hi Ben and All, I have couple of quires regarding OpenVswitch: 1) could you please confirm in OpenVswitch data flow to be @ kernel level or user level. 2) As some document says that When the first packet of a flow comes to the datapath, the datapath transmit it to the userspace using netlink.