ok. Great! Thank you very much Raja!! Eric
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Rajagopalan Sivaramakrishnan < [email protected]> wrote: > The exact dates haven’t been finalized. It will be in 2H 2015. > > Raja > > From: Meridian SJ <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 11:31 AM > To: Rajagopalan Sivaramakrishnan <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [opencontrail-dev] Resend: OpenContrail DPDK vRouter > > 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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