From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent JARDIN Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] dpif-netdev: Add support Intel DPDK based ports. Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 01:15:41 +0100 Message-ID: <52E8482D.10804@6wind.com> References: <1390873715-26714-1-git-send-email-pshelar@nicira.com> <20140128044950.GA4545@nicira.com> <52E7C31A.7050409@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "dev-yBygre7rU0TnMu66kgdUjQ@public.gmane.org" , Ben Pfaff , Jesse Gross , dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org, dpdk-ovs-hn68Rpc1hR1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org To: Pravin Shelar Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" 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/ ? > 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. Thank you, Vincent