[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3] dpdk: Late initialization.

[Aaron Conole]

Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod at vmware.com> writes:

> With this commit, we allow the user to set other_config:dpdk-init=true
> after the process is started.  This makes it easier to start Open
> vSwitch with DPDK using standard init scripts without restarting the
> service.
>
> This is still far from ideal, because initializing DPDK might still
> abort the process (e.g. if there not enough memory), so the user must
> check the status of the process after setting dpdk-init to true.
>
> Nonetheless, I think this is an improvement, because it doesn't require
> restarting the whole unit.
>
> CC: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod at vmware.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>