[ovs-dev] Some questions about DPDK+OVS

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:34:05AM +0800, lin wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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"?

I'll let someone experienced with this setup answer those questions.

> For "ACLs are supported", do you mean we could use flow to match and
> drop/pass the packet we need to filter?

Yes.

> How about  stateful rules?

I think there are plans to write a connection tracker to work with
DPDK.