[ovs-discuss] Tunneling and vhost support for dpdk

MCGRATH, GIL gm2391 at att.com
Tue Feb 3 17:00:22 UTC 2015


A few questions:

Can I use the linux bonding driver and bind the dpdk port to bond0?
If not (which I suspect), can I do LACP bonding in OVS when using DPDK?

If I apply the dpdk vhost patches as described below should I build OVS 
with IVSHMEM?

— Gil



On 1/30/15, 6:57 PM, "Traynor, Kevin" <kevin.traynor at intel.com> wrote:

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of 
>>MCGRATH, GIL
>> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 3:53 PM
>> To: Justin Pettit; Ben Pfaff
>> Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
>> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Tunneling and vhost support for dpdk
>> 
>> Checking again on whether support for VhostNet is integrated in OVS DPDK
>> yet - if so I assume I can just use the version from trunk in github.
>
>It's not upstreamed into OVS yet. The model now will be slightly 
>different as a 
>vhost library now exists in DPDK 1.8. If you want to try it out have a 
>look at 
>this post
>http://www.openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-January/050278.html
>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/22/14, 6:55 PM, "Justin Pettit" <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> >> On Nov 22, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 03:00:48PM +0000, MCGRATH, GIL wrote:
>> >>> Has tunneling support and vhost support for dpdk been integrated 
>>yet?
>> >>> I assume the tunneling includes vxlan?
>> >>
>> >> Yes, see README-native-tunneling.md.
>> >
>> >Just to be clear, though, I don't believe vhost support is integrated
>> >yet.  We spoke with Intel at the OVS Conference this week, and they're 
>>in
>> >the process of re-spinning the patches based on feedback they received.
>> >
>> >--Justin
>> >
>> >
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