[ovs-dev] Building OVS DPDK debian package

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Wed Jul 17 23:47:27 UTC 2019


On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 04:15:06PM -0700, Ravi Kerur wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:06 AM Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:03:06AM -0700, Ravi Kerur wrote:
> > > I am going through OVS 2.11.90 document to build Debian package on Ubuntu
> > > 16.04.4.
> > >
> > > http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/distributions/
> > >
> > > where it claims to have OVS+DPDK debian package. Snippets below
> > > /**************************
> > >
> > > 3. For DPDK datapath, Open vSwitch with DPDK support is bundled in the
> > > package openvswitch-switch-dpdk.
> >
> > This seems to be true for Ubuntu but not for Debian or for upstream Open
> > vSwitch.
> >
> 
> Thanks. I am building OVS(2.11.90 latest git source)+DPDK(18.11.2) package
> on Ubuntu and it doesn't seem to work.  I have set DATAPATH_CONFIGURE_OPTS =
> --with-dpdk="<DPDK-DIR>".

Yes.  The documentation is wrong.  (That's what I was trying to say
above, too.)


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