[ovs-discuss] coexistence of ofproto-dpif and customized ofproto provider

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 01:21:53AM +0000, Wuhongning wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:41:13PM +0000, Wuhongning wrote:
> >> if we have a hardware chip with rich networking feature, and want to
> >> expose as a enhanced flow switch. at the same time, we also want to
> >> keep the standard ovs, so what's the best practice to let them work
> >> together without bother each other?
> 
> >Write a second ofproto provider, then configure ovs-vswitchd to use
> >both.
> 
> how to "configure", can we do it on-the-fly? restart daemon process
> is acceptable, but any form of re-package(compile, link...) is difficulty.

It's not necessary to recompile or restart.  Just create a bridge with
"datapath_type" set to the name of the correct datapath provider.