[ovs-dev] [ovs-dev, v1] netdev-rte-offloads: Reassign vport netdev functions.

[Ophir Munk]

Thomas - would you like to explain more on the origins of "rte"?

Please note that dpdk API and its public data structures use an rte_ prefix, for example:
rte_create_flow(). This is a convenient way to know when we are directly calling/accessing the DPDK library.
In parallel we should avoid prefixing rte_ to any OVS owned APIs or structures.
In any case "rte" is widely used inside OVS with things related to dpdk.

I have sent v2 which fixes the compilation error (when compiled for kernel only without dpdk)
which was caused by an unreferenced call inside dpif-netdev. 
This call is only relevant to dpdk and is only relevant when configuring
"--with-dpdk=".

Regards,
Ophir

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ovs-dev-bounces at openvswitch.org <ovs-dev-
> bounces at openvswitch.org> On Behalf Of Ian Stokes
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2019 6:59 PM
> To: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>; Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> Cc: dev at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [ovs-dev, v1] netdev-rte-offloads: Reassign vport
> netdev functions.
> 
> On 4/17/2019 5:34 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:45:33AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
> >> rte comes from dpdk as an acronym for Run Time Environment.  Maybe
> >> even just dropping the 'rte_' portion?
> >
> > *That* is what rte stands for?  What a ridiculously generic name.
> > It's like naming a library Operating System.
> 
> This piqued my interest also, with DPDK in the early days it was targeting bare
> metal comms systems, so the original API was LWRTE (LiteWeight Run Time
> Environment) which became RTE as it moved on from bare metal, so it seems
> more of a legacy convention.
> 
> Ian
> 
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