[ovs-discuss] about the arch.

[Jesse Gross]

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:14 PM, john paul <jpav321 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>         I am getting confused in the architecture of ovs, the
> netdev-provider is for hardware specific interfaces like eth0, and after
> adding interface when traffic start it will go through datapath and
> dpif-provider to userspace this means whenever packet comes to device dose
> it go through netdev-provider,netdev then towords datapath and dpif provider
> for lookup ?

In the userspace datapath, yes. Otherwise, in the kernel datapath
netdevs are just used for device information and packets go through
the kernel directly.