[ovs-dev] [PATCH v5] netdev-dpdk: add dpdk vhost-user ports

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com
Tue May 19 09:44:29 UTC 2015


On 05/19/2015 12:20 AM, Ciara Loftus wrote:
> This patch adds support for a new port type to the userspace
> datapath called dpdkvhostuser.
>
> 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 on the host.
>
> vhost-cuse ('dpdkvhost') ports are still available, and will be
> enabled if vhost-cuse support is detected in the DPDK build
> specified during compilation of the switch. Otherwise, vhost-user
> ports are enabled.
>
> v4:
> - Included helper function for the new_device callbacks to minimise
> code duplication.
> - Fixed indentation & line-wrap.
> - Simplified and corrected the processing of vhost ovs-vswitchd flags.
>
> v5:
> - Removed unnecessary strdup()
> - Fixed spacing
>
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>

Looks good to me, thanks!

Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>

	- Panu -





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