[dpdk-dev] [ovs-dev] OVS with DPDK Meetup notes

Gray, Mark D mark.d.gray at intel.com
Wed Dec 2 10:22:14 CET 2015


> >
> > 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
There seems to be a general direction in DPDK to move everything under a PMD
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. 



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