[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/3] Indicate that DPDK support in 2.3 is experimantal.

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Thu Aug 14 18:07:25 UTC 2014


Users should consider a later version of OVS for DPDK support.

Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>
---
 INSTALL.DPDK     |    8 ++++++++
 NEWS             |    3 +--
 debian/changelog |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL.DPDK b/INSTALL.DPDK
index 3e0247a..6761e4d 100644
--- a/INSTALL.DPDK
+++ b/INSTALL.DPDK
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+
+
+           !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+           !!!!!! DPDK support in OVS 2.3 is experimental. !!!!!!
+           !!!!!!  Please consider using a later version.  !!!!!!
+           !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+
                    Using Open vSwitch with DPDK
                    ============================
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dc5ec7d..6313ec5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -29,10 +29,9 @@ v2.2.0 - Internal Release
      instead.
    - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
      tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN.
-   - Added DPDK support.
+   - Added experimental DPDK support.
    - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python
 
-
 v2.1.0 - 19 Mar 2014
 ---------------------
    - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables.  New columns
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6c33937..cffd2b7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ openvswitch (2.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
      instead.
    - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses
      tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN.
-   - Added DPDK support.
+   - Added experimental DPDK support.
    - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python
 
  -- Open vSwitch team <dev at openvswitch.org>  Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:08:38 -0700
-- 
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