> > > > I agree, it should simplify the code a lot. Ciara reviewed it and did > > a quick integration to see if the api would work. The patch was > > churning quite a bit, so we decided to hold off doing any more work > > with it for the time being. > > Correct, the vHost PMD really cleans things up and removes the need for a > lot of code in netdev-dpdk. The netdev_class for phy ports and vhost-user > ports could be pretty much the same, except for the construct functions. > There seems to be a general direction in DPDK to move everything under a PMD if we make the main interface into DPDK a pmd, we can simplify the OVS code base and make it easier to add additional port-types in the future without modifying OVS code.
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