[ovs-dev] Some questions about DPDK+OVS

lin slin0209 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 08:57:55 UTC 2015


Sorry, I shouldn't drop the mailing list.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:34 AM, lin <slin0209 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
> Thanks Ben, I read the document, a little confuse about the configuration.
> Why a physical bridge is needed? And is int-br with datapath_type "netdev"
> or "system"?
>
>
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>> > 2.Are there any plans to merge user space vhost driver into OVS
>> mainline?
>>
>> I believe that's underway.
>>
> That's great news!
>
>
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>> > 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.
>>
> For "ACLs are supported", do you mean we could use flow to match and
> drop/pass the packet we need to filter? How about  stateful rules?
>
> Thank you!
>
>



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