[ovs-dev] How ovs dpdk tunnel works

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Thu Sep 10 01:18:37 UTC 2015


On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Na Zhu <zhunatuzi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jesse,
>
> Thanks your reply.
> Is the user space vxlan module copy from the linux kernel vxlan module?

 It's not a copy.

> The tunnel usage is the same to me if I upgrade ovs 2.3 to ovs 2.4, right?

Considering that DPDK tunneling is new in OVS 2.4, I'm not sure how it
could be considered to be the same. If you use the kernel
implementation, it is the same. If you are using DPDK then you should
follow README-native-tunneling.md.



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