[ovs-dev] [RFC] rhel/ifup: support vhost-user client mode

[Aaron Conole]

Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> writes:

> This adds support for ifup to configure client-mode sockets by exposing
> two new variables $OVS_PORT_MODE and $OVS_PORT_PATH to the ifcfg
> scripts.  When OVS_PORT_MODE is set to 'client', the OVS_PORT_PATH will
> be passed as the vhost-server-path option.
>
> No change is needed to ifdown because the OVSDPDKVhostUserPort type
> already has an appropriate entry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> ---

I did some testing, found an issue, and simplified it.

New version:

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-February/328745.html

-Aaron