[ovs-dev] Some questions about DPDK+OVS

lin slin0209 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 12:30:40 UTC 2015


On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes at intel.com> wrote:

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> > -----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.
>

Thanks for your information, that's great news!

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