[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Update relevant artifacts to add support for DPDK 16.04.

Daniele Di Proietto daniele.di.proietto at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 01:48:26 UTC 2016


2016-04-13 9:21 GMT-07:00 Traynor, Kevin <kevin.traynor at intel.com>:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Panu
> Matilainen
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 8:50 AM
> > To: Weglicki, MichalX <michalx.weglicki at intel.com>; dev at openvswitch.org
> > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Update relevant artifacts to add support
> for
> > DPDK 16.04.
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> > As an aside, I've been thinking maybe this is a case where OVS could
> > support both DPDK 2.2 and 16.04. I know its unprecedented but maybe that
> > could change, restricting OVS to just one DPDK version seems
> > unnecessarily strict when talking about differences this trivial.
>
> Judging by the ML, it's more commonly requested to use the current release
> of DPDK with the last release of OVS e.g. OVS 2.5 and DPDK 16.04, than
> people
> wanting OVS master with DPDK X-1.
>
> Even for a trivial case like above - it would be ok now to add support for
> DPDK X-1
> but if we then add OVS code to take advantage of new DPDK X features (e.g.
> vhost
> pmd) we'll end up with messy code. Also testing efforts would increase
> (double?),
> so I don't think we would get it without a cost.
>

I agree, I'd still prefer to support a single version


>
> Kevin.
>
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