Hi Raja, Thank you for all the useful info. I will wait for 2.30 release then. When is it release?
Thanks, Eric On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Rajagopalan Sivaramakrishnan < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > Please see below. > > Raja > > From: Meridian SJ <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, June 19, 2015 at 5:45 PM > To: Rajagopalan Sivaramakrishnan <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [opencontrail-dev] Resend: OpenContrail DPDK vRouter > > Hi Raja, > > Thank you for your quick response. > > More questions: ...: ) > > >1. What do you mean "compute node provisioning"? Are you saying > vRouter-agent writes the "hugepages" and other "EAL > (coremask/nic/memory...)" options to a testbed file for vRouter->dpdk > process to initialize? Could I just manually config DPDK hugepage and > parameters for vRouter-dpdk? If not too much trouble, could you please give > me a pointer of DPDK utilities? > > Please see > http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/contrail1.0/information-products/pathway-pages/contrail-feature-guide-pwp.html#installation > for > details on how to install Contrail. This is what I am referring to as > “compute node provisioning”. You can do this once the 2.30 release is out > with support for DPDK. Until then, you will have to do it manually by doing > the equivalent of what the provisioning scripts would have done (with input > from the testbed file). Please take a look at > https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-provisioning for commits related to > DPDK. > > >2. If the answer for question 1 is yes, vRouter-dpdk process is able > to run by itself without vrouter-agent involved? > > It can, but it won’t get any forwarding information > (interfaces/routes/nexthops etc.). You will have to do that manually (see > below). > > > >3. From my understanding of the CLI utility tools, it uses sandesh > protocol on top of netlink to talk vRouter-dpdk process. In this case, > during the develop process, developer can just use >utility CLI to push > config and pop the stats to verify vRourer-DPDK works as expected. Is it > correct? > > Yes, you can run these commands. But these commands need to run in DPDK > mode (/etc/contrail/contrail-vrouter-agent.conf needs to be populated with > the right entries – this would normally be done by the provisioning > scripts). >
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