Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC v3 1/1] netdev-dpdk: Add support for DPDK 16.07

2016-08-03 Thread Loftus, Ciara
> > Given that using vhost PMD doesn't seem viable in the very short term, I > think we should stick with the vhost lib. > I sent a patch for ovsrcu to add a new RCU protected array index. > > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-August/077097.html > Thanks, > Daniele Thanks Daniele, I subm

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC v3 1/1] netdev-dpdk: Add support for DPDK 16.07

2016-08-02 Thread Daniele Di Proietto
Given that using vhost PMD doesn't seem viable in the very short term, I think we should stick with the vhost lib. I sent a patch for ovsrcu to add a new RCU protected array index. http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-August/077097.html Thanks, Daniele 2016-07-28 6:26 GMT-07:00 Loftus, Ci

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC v3 1/1] netdev-dpdk: Add support for DPDK 16.07

2016-08-02 Thread Daniele Di Proietto
2016-07-24 11:06 GMT-07:00 Ben Pfaff : > On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 10:17:13AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote: > > Daniele Di Proietto writes: > > > > > Thanks for the patch. > > > > > > I have another concern with this. If we're still going to rely on RCU > to > > > protect the vhost device (and as poi

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC v3 1/1] netdev-dpdk: Add support for DPDK 16.07

2016-07-28 Thread Loftus, Ciara
> > Thanks for the patch. > I have another concern with this.  If we're still going to rely on RCU to > protect > the vhost device (and as pointed out by Ilya, I think we should) we need to > use RCU-like semantics on the vid array index. I'm not sure a boolean flag is > going to be enough. > CCi

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC v3 1/1] netdev-dpdk: Add support for DPDK 16.07

2016-07-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 10:17:13AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote: > Daniele Di Proietto writes: > > > Thanks for the patch. > > > > I have another concern with this. If we're still going to rely on RCU to > > protect the vhost device (and as pointed out by Ilya, I think we should) we > > need to use

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC v3 1/1] netdev-dpdk: Add support for DPDK 16.07

2016-07-24 Thread Aaron Conole
Hi Daniele, Daniele Di Proietto writes: > Thanks for the patch. > > I have another concern with this. If we're still going to rely on RCU to > protect the vhost device (and as pointed out by Ilya, I think we should) we > need to use RCU-like semantics on the vid array index. I'm not sure a > bo

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC v3 1/1] netdev-dpdk: Add support for DPDK 16.07

2016-07-22 Thread Daniele Di Proietto
Thanks for the patch. I have another concern with this. If we're still going to rely on RCU to protect the vhost device (and as pointed out by Ilya, I think we should) we need to use RCU-like semantics on the vid array index. I'm not sure a boolean flag is going to be enough. CCing Jarno: We ha