[ovs-dev] RFC: the meaning of LINUX_DATAPATH and HAVE_IF_DL

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Jan 24 00:43:01 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 01:29:32AM +0100, Daniele Di Proietto wrote:
> I'll just attach the patch (just for a quick preview, it is not ready jet)
> that builds the userspace components for the kernel datapath in FreeBSD. We
> provide some linux functionalities (netlink and epoll) through wrappers
> (not included here) so that LINUX_DATAPATH is true. What we may need is a
> better way to understand which features are present to exclude some blocks
> inside LINUX_DATAPATH.

>From reading this, it looks like the BSD kernel datapath port also
uses Netlink as the communication channel to the kernel.  Is that
correct?



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