[ovs-dev] Some questions about DPDK+OVS

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Mar 13 16:01:54 UTC 2015


On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 04:16:25PM +0800, lin wrote:
> 1.DPDK+OVS take advantage of OVS's user space bridge to do packet
> forwarding, are there any plans to support user space vxlan tunneling?

Already supported, please read README-native-tunneling.md.

> 2.Are there any plans to merge user space vhost driver into OVS mainline?

I believe that's underway.

> Also, how about the offload features exposure to the VM, like, TCP offload,
> checksum offload, scatter-gather, etc?

I don't know.

> 3.Are there any plans to support QOS and ACL features in DPDK OVS on user
> space?

ACLs are supported.

I do not know of anyone working on QoS.



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