Re: [ovs-dev] OVS+DPDK rpm

2015-11-30 Thread Thomas F Herbert
On 11/25/15 11:54 AM, Flavio Leitner wrote: Hi, In order to build the Fedora RPM with DPDK some changes to the spec file are required. However, I was told that not all users want to build with DPDK or even have the DPDK libs installed. It seems a fair request if you are working with OVS only.

Re: [ovs-dev] OVS+DPDK rpm

2015-11-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:00:11PM +0100, Vincent JARDIN wrote: > 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 kerne

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] OVS+DPDK rpm

2015-11-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:46:03AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Also at least I haven't personally seen such concerns from anybody > concretely, I've only heard speculation "some say, some users might not want > dpdk..." Which is just silly, its just a library which does absolutely > nothing unl

Re: [ovs-dev] OVS+DPDK rpm

2015-11-26 Thread Gray, Mark D
> > Therefore we have two options. > 1) add the option '--with dpdk' to the current spec file, so that users that > doesn't want DPDK just follow the usual steps and that's it. DPDK users only > need to pass those two arguments to have the OVS+DPDK RPM files. > > 2) Create another copy of .spec

Re: [ovs-dev] OVS+DPDK rpm

2015-11-26 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 11/25/2015 08:27 PM, Aaron Conole wrote: Flavio, Thanks for these questions. Flavio Leitner writes: Hi, In order to build the Fedora RPM with DPDK some changes to the spec file are required. However, I was told that not all users want to build with DPDK or even have the DPDK libs install

Re: [ovs-dev] OVS+DPDK rpm

2015-11-25 Thread Aaron Conole
Flavio, Thanks for these questions. Flavio Leitner writes: > Hi, > > In order to build the Fedora RPM with DPDK some changes to the > spec file are required. However, I was told that not all users > want to build with DPDK or even have the DPDK libs installed. It > seems a fair request if you a

[ovs-dev] OVS+DPDK rpm

2015-11-25 Thread Flavio Leitner
Hi, In order to build the Fedora RPM with DPDK some changes to the spec file are required. However, I was told that not all users want to build with DPDK or even have the DPDK libs installed. It seems a fair request if you are working with OVS only. Therefore we have two options. 1) add the opti