[ovs-dev] Some questions about DPDK+OVS

Stokes, Ian ian.stokes at intel.com
Wed Mar 18 10:44:48 UTC 2015



> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of lin
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 8:59 AM
> To: Traynor, Kevin; dev at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Some questions about DPDK+OVS
> 
> Sorry, I shouldn't drop the mailing list.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:35 AM, lin <slin0209 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Traynor, Kevin
> <kevin.traynor at intel.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Ben
> Pfaff
> >> > Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 4:02 PM
> >> > To: lin
> >> > Cc: dev at openvswitch.org
> >> > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Some questions about DPDK+OVS
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >>
> >> There's an RFC patch for plugging in a QoS scheduler here:
> >> http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-January/050642.html
> >>
> >> All feedback welcome.
> >>
> >> Thanks, Kevin. I will take a look at it. Is there a schedule to push
> > the code into mainline OVS?

Hi Lin, QoS will be in active development over the next few weeks with the aim of upstreaming the work submitted in the RFC patch above along with a userpsace strict priority queuing implementation.
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