From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Pfaff Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] dpif-netdev: Add support Intel DPDK based ports. Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:49:50 -0800 Message-ID: <20140128044950.GA4545@nicira.com> References: <1390873715-26714-1-git-send-email-pshelar@nicira.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org, dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org, Gerald Rogers , dpdk-ovs-hn68Rpc1hR1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org To: pshelar-l0M0P4e3n4LQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1390873715-26714-1-git-send-email-pshelar-l0M0P4e3n4LQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dev-bounces-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: dev-bounces-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: dev.dpdk.org On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 05:48:35PM -0800, pshelar-l0M0P4e3n4LQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org wrote: > From: Pravin B Shelar > > Following patch adds DPDK netdev-class to userspace datapath. > Approach taken in this patch differs from Intel?? DPDK vSwitch > where DPDK datapath switching is done in saparate process. This > patch adds support for DPDK type port and uses OVS userspace > datapath for switching. Therefore all DPDK processing and flow > miss handling is done in single process. This also avoids code > duplication by reusing OVS userspace datapath switching and > therefore it supports all flow matching and actions that > user-space datapath supports. Refer to INSTALL.DPDK doc for > further info. > > With this patch I got similar performance for netperf TCP_STREAM > tests compared to kernel datapath. > > This is based a patch from Gerald Rogers. > > Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar > CC: "Gerald Rogers" 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.