Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] dpif-netdev: Add support Intel DPDK based ports.

[Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Vincent JARDIN
<vincent.jardin@6wind.com> wrote:
> Hi Pravin,
>
>
>>> Few feature questions:
>>>
>>>    - what's about the vNIC supports (toward the guests)?
>>>    - what's about IPsec support (VxLAN over IPsec for instance)?
>>> I do not understand how your patch will solve those 2 cases.
>>>
>> At this point I wanted to get basic DPDK support in OVS, once that is
>> done we can add support for vNIC.
>
>
> For vNIC, did you notice:
>   http://dpdk.org/browse/memnic/
>
> ?

AFAIU it is introducing backend driver for vNIC which shld work with this patch.

>
>> IPsec and vxlan or any L3 tunneling requires IP stack in userspace and
>> needs more design work.
>
>
> OK, understood.
>
>
>>>>>> This is based a patch from Gerald Rogers.
>>>
>>>
>>> Please which patch? I cannot find it into the archives.
>>>
>> It was directly sent to Jesse at Nicira. If you want I can send it out for
>> ref.
>
>
> Yes, please.

Attached is the patch based upon HEAD-309d9da.

Thanks,
Pravin.

>
> Thank you,
>   Vincent
>