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

Wuhongning wuhongning at huawei.com
Wed Mar 19 03:52:42 UTC 2014


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From: Ben Pfaff [blp at nicira.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:43 AM
To: Wuhongning
Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] coexistence of ofproto-dpif and customized ofproto provider

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.

then where shall I put the newly written ofproto module, and what's
the package style of it? (a .so lib, or a standalone process). we want
to keep all files in the ovs package distributed without any change,
except .ini and .conf files.



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