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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