[ovs-dev] [PATCH] FAQ: Add entry about different datapaths features.

[Gray, Mark D]

> From: Justin Pettit [mailto:jpettit at ovn.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 5:03 PM
> 
> > On Dec 8, 2015, at 1:01 AM, Gray, Mark D <mark.d.gray at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >> +Feature               | Linux upstream | Linux OVS tree | Userspace | Hyper-V
> |
> >> +----------------------|:--------------:|:--------------:|:---------:|:-
> >> +----------------------|------:|
> >> +Connection tracking   |      4.3       |       3.10     |    NO     |   NO    |
> >> +Tunnel - LISP         |      NO        |       YES      |    NO     |   NO    |
> >> +Tunnel - STT          |      NO        |       3.5      |    NO     |   YES   |
> >> +Tunnel - GRE          |      3.11      |       YES      |    YES    |   NO    |
> >> +Tunnel - VXLAN        |      3.12      |       YES      |    YES    |   YES   |
> >> +Tunnel - Geneve       |      3.18      |       YES      |    YES    |   NO    |
> >> +QoS                   |      YES       |       YES      |    NO     |   NO    |
> >
> > [Gray, Mark D]
> > QoS is such a loaded term. It may be good to expand on this a bit.
> 
> What about breaking it into "Traffic Policing" and "Traffic Shaping"?  Those
> are the two dimensions we usually focus on.

That helps. There is also Ingress Policing in the other direction and
the metering work being done by Jarno.

All this might make the table quite complicated though! 

> 
> --Justin
> 
>