[ovs-discuss] Info next OVS with Intel DPDK

[Traynor, Kevin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Pravin
> Shelar
> Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 9:57 PM
> To: Iezzi, Federico
> Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Info next OVS with Intel DPDK
> 
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Iezzi, Federico <federico.iezzi at hp.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm so sorry if you already spoken a lot of this topic.
> >
> >
> >
> > In my opinion this is the most clear topic on the OVS mailing list but it
> is
> > a bit old (6 months ago) ->
> > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-September/015019.html

If you are looking for more info, there are a few newer threads on ML than 
the one you've linked. e.g.
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-January/016383.html

> >
> >
> >
> > If I'm not wrong the next OVS version will be released when two important
> > features will be available: vHost (for QEMU integration) and Tunning
> "under"
> > DPDK code.
> >
> >
> >
> > From the changelog the current master OVS code supports Tunnel acceleration
> > but it doesn't support the vHost functionality.
> >
> > From the DPDK 2.0-RC1 changelog (released last week) Intel added the
> > Tunneling acceleration at the DPDK level.
> >
> >
> >
> > So can someone explain me the current integration status?
> >
> > I know that the next OVS version will be available when all the features
> > will be available but these features in what development state are.
> >
> >
> Tunnel support is already in OVS master branch. vhost patches are
> under review but it is blocked on dpdk 1.8 support. I hope vhost
> support will be merge in 2-3 weeks.
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