From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
To: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Cc: "dev@openvswitch.org" <dev@openvswitch.org>,
dev@dpdk.org, Gerald Rogers <gerald.rogers@intel.com>,
dpdk-ovs@ml01.01.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC] dpif-netdev: Add support Intel DPDK based ports.
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:15:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E8B88A.1070104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALnjE+rP29s8mkiKPtppt-a8jMn-B2qS7+re2ZBd8bK46ozUPA@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/28/2014 07:17 PM, Pravin Shelar wrote:
> Right, version mismatch will not work. API provided by DPDK are not
> stable, So OVS has to be built for different releases for now.
>
> I do not see how we can fix it from OVS side. DPDK needs to
> standardize API, Actually OVS also needs more API, like DPDK
> initialization, mempool destroy, etc.
Agreed. It's not fixable from the OVS side. I also don't want to
object to including this. I'm just raising awareness of the issue
as this will become essential for dstribution.
The obvious and usual best practise would be for DPDK to guarantee
ABI stability between minor releases.
Since dpdk-dev is copied as well, any comments?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-29 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-28 1:48 [dpdk-dev] " pshelar
[not found] ` <20140128044950.GA4545@nicira.com>
2014-01-28 5:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [ovs-dev] " Pravin Shelar
2014-01-28 14:47 ` [dpdk-dev] " Vincent JARDIN
2014-01-28 17:56 ` Pravin Shelar
2014-01-29 0:15 ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-01-29 19:32 ` Pravin Shelar
[not found] ` <52E7D2A8.400@redhat.com>
2014-01-28 18:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [ovs-dev] " Pravin Shelar
[not found] ` <52E7D13B.9020404@redhat.com>
2014-01-28 18:17 ` Pravin Shelar
2014-01-29 8:15 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2014-01-29 10:26 ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-01-29 11:14 ` Thomas Graf
2014-01-29 16:34 ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-01-29 17:14 ` Thomas Graf
2014-01-29 18:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-01-29 20:47 ` François-Frédéric Ozog
2014-01-29 23:15 ` Thomas Graf
2014-03-13 7:37 ` David Nyström
2014-01-29 8:56 ` [dpdk-dev] " Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-01-29 21:29 ` Pravin Shelar
2014-01-30 10:15 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-01-30 16:27 ` Rogers, Gerald
2014-01-29 10:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [ovs-dev] " Thomas Graf
2014-01-29 21:49 ` Pravin Shelar
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