[ovs-discuss] Status of DPDK in OVS

MCGRATH, GIL gm2391 at att.com
Mon Sep 29 15:00:30 UTC 2014


Justin,

Is there an anticipated date on when 2.4 will be available?

‹Gil

On 9/24/14, 5:49 PM, "Justin Pettit" <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:

>On September 19, 2014 at 9:39:09 AM, MCGRATH, GIL (gm2391 at att.com) wrote:
>> I am looking into the use of DPDK with OVS.
>>  
>> I am a bit confused on the following:
>>  
>> * What is the status of DPDK support in OVS?
>
>It's still a work in progress, but it is functional in our "master"
>branch, and we're getting impressive performance with it.
>
>> * What releases does this work or will work in?
>
>It's not in a current release yet, but it will be included as part of OVS
>2.4.
>
>> * What is the status of the DPDK support githiub openvswitch/ovs?
>
>It is working.  For NFV and vswitch applications, there are two bigs
>omissions at the moment.  First, there is no tunneling support, but that
>is being actively worked on.  Second, there's no vhost support, which
>prevents getting traffic to VMs.  We expect to get a contribution for
>that support in the next couple of weeks.  Both of these issues should be
>resolved before OVS 2.4 is released.
>
>> * What is the relationship to the openvswitch in
>>github.com/01org/dpdk-ovs?
>
>The 01.org project pre-dates the mainstream OVS work.  The one that's
>being developed as part of the OVS mainstream will follow OVS development
>going forward, and expect it to perform better than the one from 01.org.
>Intel has been contributing to our mainstream release as well.
>
>--Justin
>
>
>




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