[ovs-dev] OVS with DPDK Meetup notes

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Tue Dec 1 18:04:48 UTC 2015


On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 04:09:07PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 11/26/2015 07:56 PM, Traynor, Kevin wrote:
> >Just wanted to post some summary notes on the recent OVS with DPDK Meetup we
> >had after the OVS conference. Thanks to everyone for the often lively discussion.
> >I've collated and condensed Maryam's notes (Thank you Maryam) with my own.
> >Corrections and additions are welcome.
> >
> >Usability
> >==========
> >* Command line options
> >   - Create defaults which can be overridden on the command line.
> >   -c 0x1
> >   -n 4 (this will be in DPDK 2.2 also)
> >   -socket-mem 1024,0
> 
> Another possibility might be saving these in Open_vSwitch other_config db
> along with pmd-cpu-mask and the like. DPDK init could be delayed until the
> config db is available I think.

It would seem to make sense to configure DPDK the same way as everything
else in OVS: through the database.



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