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

[Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>]

Hi Vincent,

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Vincent JARDIN
<vincent.jardin@6wind.com> wrote:
> Hi Pravin,
>
> Yes, it is a good integration with http://dpdk.org
>
> 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.
IPsec and vxlan or any L3 tunneling requires IP stack in userspace and
needs more design work.

>
>>>> 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.

Thanks,
Pravin.

>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
>>>> CC: "Gerald Rogers" <gerald.rogers@intel.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> I haven't looked at the patch yet (it does sound awesome) but if it's
>>> based on Gerald's code then I'd expect to get his Signed-off-by too.
>>
>>
>> Right.
>>
>> Gerald's Patch did not had any signed-off. So If he send me signed-off
>> now, I will update the commit msg.
>
>
> Best regards,
>   Vincent