[ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC 1/1] netdev-dpdk: add dpdk vhost-user ports

Pravin Shelar pshelar at nicira.com
Fri Mar 20 17:53:14 UTC 2015


On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com> wrote:
> This patch adds support for a new port type to the userspace datapath
> called dpdkvhostuser. It adds to the existing infrastructure of
> vhost-cuse, however disables vhost-cuse ports in favour of vhost-user
> ports.
>
> A new dpdkvhostuser port will create a unix domain socket which when
> provided to QEMU is used to facilitate communication between the
> virtio-net device on the VM and the OVS port.
>
Thanks for the patch. I have pushed OVS DPDK vHost cuse patch. Once we
add support for vhost user, vhost-cuse support should be dropped. I
think we need to wait for dpdk 2.0 for vhost-user support. So can you
post rebased patch once we move to DPDK 2.0?



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