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| author | Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com> | 2017-01-05 10:42:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com> | 2017-01-05 20:10:19 -0800 |
| commit | 69876ed78611844d6db4b6b62c9a229f185e3fec (patch) | |
| tree | 1259c475e34ee541d4c48ab73592d0e9197ccef3 /NEWS | |
| parent | 55e075e65ef9ecbd70e5e0fada2704c3d73724d8 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-69876ed78611844d6db4b6b62c9a229f185e3fec.tar.gz | |
netdev-dpdk: Add support for virtual DPDK PMDs (vdevs)
Prior to this commit, the 'dpdk' port type could only be used for
physical DPDK devices. Now, virtual devices (or 'vdevs') are supported.
'vdev' devices are those which use virtual DPDK Poll Mode Drivers eg.
null, pcap. To add a DPDK vdev, a valid 'dpdk-devargs' must be set for
the given dpdk port. The format expected is 'eth_<driver_name><x>' where
'x' is a number between 0 and RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS -1.
For example to add a port that uses the 'null' DPDK PMD driver:
ovs-vsctl set Interface null0 options:dpdk-devargs=eth_null0
Not all DPDK vdevs have been verified to work at this point in time.
Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen@that.guru> # docs only
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Post-v2.6.0 with the old dpdk<portid> naming scheme is broken, and as such a device will not be available for use until a valid dpdk-devargs is specified. + * Virtual DPDK Poll Mode Driver (vdev PMD) support. - Fedora packaging: * A package upgrade does not automatically restart OVS service. - ovs-vswitchd/ovs-vsctl: |