From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D5D37A6 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2015 10:22:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from orsmga003.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.27]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 Dec 2015 01:22:16 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.20,372,1444719600"; d="scan'208";a="698629016" Received: from irsmsx153.ger.corp.intel.com ([163.33.192.75]) by orsmga003.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 Dec 2015 01:22:16 -0800 Received: from irsmsx112.ger.corp.intel.com (10.108.20.5) by IRSMSX153.ger.corp.intel.com (163.33.192.75) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.248.2; Wed, 2 Dec 2015 09:22:15 +0000 Received: from irsmsx108.ger.corp.intel.com ([169.254.11.23]) by irsmsx112.ger.corp.intel.com ([169.254.1.8]) with mapi id 14.03.0248.002; Wed, 2 Dec 2015 09:22:15 +0000 From: "Gray, Mark D" To: "Loftus, Ciara" , "Traynor, Kevin" , Flavio Leitner Thread-Topic: [ovs-dev] OVS with DPDK Meetup notes Thread-Index: AdEocQN89+PFAvC2THGnp+yfB/5txgDWPnmAABdA4PAAHNRQEAASGA8w Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 09:22:14 +0000 Message-ID: <738D45BC1F695740A983F43CFE1B7EA943921158@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <20151130235111.GC8825@x240.home> <74F120C019F4A64C9B78E802F6AD4CC24F7D3872@IRSMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <74F120C019F4A64C9B78E802F6AD4CC24F7D3872@IRSMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com> Accept-Language: en-IE, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-inteldataclassification: CTP_IC x-titus-metadata-40: eyJDYXRlZ29yeUxhYmVscyI6IiIsIk1ldGFkYXRhIjp7Im5zIjoiaHR0cDpcL1wvd3d3LnRpdHVzLmNvbVwvbnNcL0ludGVsIiwiaWQiOiJmNGU3NGNiYi0wYTE5LTQyZTAtYTI2OS04ZjNlNzk4OTk3NGMiLCJwcm9wcyI6W3sibiI6IkludGVsRGF0YUNsYXNzaWZpY2F0aW9uIiwidmFscyI6W3sidmFsdWUiOiJDVFBfSUMifV19XX0sIlN1YmplY3RMYWJlbHMiOltdLCJUTUNWZXJzaW9uIjoiMTUuNC4xMC4xOSIsIlRydXN0ZWRMYWJlbEhhc2giOiJJWlRsQng3XC93Y0RoWVI0SWFvSVNXSmwzRUMrZUZoM1U0akl4OE51ZlFPST0ifQ== x-originating-ip: [163.33.239.181] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: "dev@openvswitch.org" , "dev@dpdk.org" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [ovs-dev] OVS with DPDK Meetup notes X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 09:22:19 -0000 > > > > I agree, it should simplify the code a lot. Ciara reviewed it and did > > a quick integration to see if the api would work. The patch was > > churning quite a bit, so we decided to hold off doing any more work > > with it for the time being. >=20 > Correct, the vHost PMD really cleans things up and removes the need for a > lot of code in netdev-dpdk. The netdev_class for phy ports and vhost-user > ports could be pretty much the same, except for the construct functions. >=20 There seems to be a general direction in DPDK to move everything under a PM= D if we make the main interface into DPDK a pmd, we can simplify the OVS code= base and make it easier to add additional port-types in the future without modifying OVS code.=20