From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from na3sys009aog111.obsmtp.com (na3sys009aog111.obsmtp.com [74.125.149.205]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DAD65320 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:31:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-vb0-f48.google.com ([209.85.212.48]) (using TLSv1) by na3sys009aob111.postini.com ([74.125.148.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKUulXUmlqOarJLkS0rmYk/NCg10js75D8@postini.com; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:32:36 PST Received: by mail-vb0-f48.google.com with SMTP id q16so1447068vbe.35 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:32:34 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=SS5pmC47n4Ut8sO+weT4yYJ6PEax+zbkvrmD4DkiFNo=; b=dcClEszy9D99O3BuDCglJ7pVmkALzZPgEf9PJtjYnwzGpouZ7AAG6GZbjaZiDyF+1R Xyg8YyEZv9Xyd/XDuEK4a9Lgyj4wWXKGHGo2zBjziO/o6rBFUc38TxCSbUHGYaegnvdO 7ToP0Sh9uZTYfkwTiloRZADnUhxgcTj6hXdEZQDIcMtdLqh6XDM8yG6osLBEFzJMMGko 4zKUPO75lUCylUff3DbwI5mn74z+T604FA8qlk7uOkH6R6aU6Erb8aOYG/+As3Faww3/ 1eGpbMFzc6CfGBOSV8OpwIGrvi3gi4xqER+570KgQlW5ER/xxbnWAIWDZHQPM2MGc/Kf RBYA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmQeEbo8g9rFwL1zm/nL6vW4zGtBehbahtMopC+9Qhq1ehPDglO+nWSkiKq1QkcHv5lehbMOYlcnqDkDy1X2I8ow/qQXC+SAUHbT60sB8CwZwoUmPg1+9icqRKI8k6//0sM8UBlcbRgSCvDv8VoGzdyg6BUjw== X-Received: by 10.58.85.133 with SMTP id h5mr7928189vez.4.1391023954897; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:32:34 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.58.85.133 with SMTP id h5mr7928184vez.4.1391023954812; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:32:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.221.32.67 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:32:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <52E8482D.10804@6wind.com> References: <1390873715-26714-1-git-send-email-pshelar@nicira.com> <20140128044950.GA4545@nicira.com> <52E7C31A.7050409@6wind.com> <52E8482D.10804@6wind.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:32:34 -0800 Message-ID: From: Pravin Shelar To: Vincent JARDIN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Cc: "dev@openvswitch.org" , Ben Pfaff , Jesse Gross , dev@dpdk.org, dpdk-ovs@lists.01.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] dpif-netdev: Add support Intel DPDK based ports. 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, 29 Jan 2014 19:31:18 -0000 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Vincent JARDIN 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 >