[ovs-dev] OVS with DPDK Meetup notes

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 03:40:33PM +0000, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/12/15 18:04, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >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.
> 
> 
> We already did something like that for ODP:
> 
> https://git.linaro.org/lng/odp-ovs.git/commitdiff/39944d3d6b95591eb1ac113a6816ac44c3a2832b
> https://git.linaro.org/lng/odp-ovs.git/commitdiff/1b38b79f8017988ae41bae8b35d39798ad25e699
> 
> With the second patch we removed the need for external variables, which ease
> up things even more.

Sounds like what we want.

Does anyone want to submit these for upstream OVS?