[ovs-dev] OVS+DPDK rpm

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Fri Nov 27 18:30:57 UTC 2015


On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:46:03AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Also at least I haven't personally seen such concerns from anybody
> concretely, I've only heard speculation "some say, some users might not want
> dpdk..." Which is just silly, its just a library which does absolutely
> nothing unless you choose to enable it in OVS config.
> 
> What is reasonable is that upstream allows OVS to be built without DPDK.
> Distro packaging is a completely different ball-game where packages are
> typically built with maximum capabilities. It doesn't make the damnest
> difference for the user if "yum install openvswitch" pulls in an additional
> package for libraries.

Right.

This is like building the Linux kernel with all modules configured, or
building Emacs with support for both console and X interfaces.  There is
little penalty and great increase in convenience.



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