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

Thomas Graf tgraf at redhat.com
Wed Jan 29 09:15:06 CET 2014


On 01/28/2014 07:17 PM, Pravin Shelar wrote:
> Right, version mismatch will not work. API provided by DPDK are not
> stable, So OVS has to be built for different releases for now.
>
> I do not see how we can fix it from OVS side. DPDK needs to
> standardize API, Actually OVS also needs more API, like DPDK
> initialization, mempool destroy, etc.

Agreed. It's not fixable from the OVS side. I also don't want to
object to including this. I'm just raising awareness of the issue
as this will become essential for dstribution.

The obvious and usual best practise would be for DPDK to guarantee
ABI stability between minor releases.

Since dpdk-dev is copied as well, any comments?


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