[ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch 1.10 features

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:20:53PM +0000, Gray, Mark D wrote:
> On the Open vSwitch webpage, there is a section "Features" that
> lists the features available in the current (presumably 1.10)
> release.
> 
> These features are all available using the default Kernel forwarding
> path. If Open vSwitch was ported to another platform using a fully
> implemented dpif forwarding path, would all these features still be
> available?

This is true, with a few exceptions.  One that comes to mind is that
some features (QoS, tunneling) are actually implemented in the
"netdev" layer, but as long as you implemented those there you'd still
get them.

> Is there a way to quickly determine this from looking at the code?

Yes, look at PORTING and lib/dpif-provider.h and
lib/netdev-provider.h.