[ovs-dev] OpenvSwitch version for Ubuntu Saucy + Kernel 3.9/3.10

[Dan Wendlandt]

Yeah, I'm all for getting the latest + greatest out to the community.

dan


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) <kmestery at cisco.com
> wrote:

> On May 30, 2013, at 6:13 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:16 PM, James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi OpenvSwitch Devs
> >>
> >> Ubuntu Saucy development has been open for a while and the Ubuntu kernel
> >> team are currently targeting either Linux 3.9 or 3.10 for this release.
> >>
> >> Currently the 1.9.0 DKMS source is unhappy with 3.9 - I've hacked on it
> for
> >> a bit and although it definitely possible to backport/fixup enough to
> make
> >> it work with Linux >= 3.9 I wondered whether 1.10 would make a better
> base;
> >> I was able to get things up and running with the following commits:
> >>
> >> f8dfbcb77d7678fa19b4de0f94118b713f74ffb8: datapath: hlist: drop the node
> >> parameter from iterators
> >> 29285b6286493965a36ae3eff5983457f85cd087: datapath: Backport simplified
> >> hlist iterators.
> >>
> >> plus the normal change to datapath.c to increase the range of supported
> >> kernel versions.
> >>
> >> Also I think the VXLAN support in 1.10 is of interest to OpenStack users
> >> (the Havana release should grow support for this).  The version of
> >> OpenvSwitch that ships with Saucy will also be provided to support
> OpenStack
> >> Havana on Ubuntu 12.04.
> >
> > I would agree that 1.10 is probably the way to go at this point due to
> > VXLAN support (note that it's only point-to-point, no multicast).
> > However, as Pravin mentioned it still needs some additional patches to
> > support 3.9.
>
> I also concur on 1.10, especially given the work currently going on in
> Havana
> to enable the OVS VXLAN point-to-point support in the Open vSwitch plugin.
>
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