[dpdk-dev] Hyper-v support

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Dec 6 22:29:43 CET 2016


On Tue, 06 Dec 2016 22:25:29 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:

> 2016-12-06 12:25, Stephen Hemminger:
> > 2016-12-01 12:21, Thomas Monjalon:  
> > > 2016-11-30 14:34, Varun:    
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I would like to know if the latest DPDK (16.11) supports hyper-v?
> > > > 
> > > > I couldn't find any conclusive evidence online or in dpdk roadmap. Is it
> > > > likely that we see it in 17.05?    
> > > 
> > > Stephen did a presentation at the last DPDK userspace summit:
> > > https://dpdksummit.com/Archive/pdf/2016Userspace/Day01-Session03-StephenHemminger-Userspace2016.pdf
> > > 
> > > Stephen, please, could you confirm the expected release for Hyper-V support?
> > > A patch for the roadmap page would be great:
> > > 	http://dpdk.org/dev/roadmap    
> > 
> > Yes, the plan is the same. Since DPDK is moving target, getting merges done has been
> > a real pain.  The Hyper-V UIO generic driver has just gone into upstream next tree.  
> 
> I don't understand what you mean.

The code from Brocade was on older release, and depended on a slightly different model
for UIO interaction. Resolving this has taken longer than expected. Also the changes from

The changes to PCI for v16.11 overlapped vmbus related changes.



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