________________________________________ From: Ben Pfaff [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:43 AM To: Wuhongning Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] coexistence of ofproto-dpif and customized ofproto provider
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 01:21:53AM +0000, Wuhongning wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:41:13PM +0000, Wuhongning wrote: >> >> if we have a hardware chip with rich networking feature, and want to >> >> expose as a enhanced flow switch. at the same time, we also want to >> >> keep the standard ovs, so what's the best practice to let them work >> >> together without bother each other? >> > >> >Write a second ofproto provider, then configure ovs-vswitchd to use >> >both. >> >> how to "configure", can we do it on-the-fly? restart daemon process >> is acceptable, but any form of re-package(compile, link...) is difficulty. > It's not necessary to recompile or restart. Just create a bridge with > "datapath_type" set to the name of the correct datapath provider. then where shall I put the newly written ofproto module, and what's the package style of it? (a .so lib, or a standalone process). we want to keep all files in the ovs package distributed without any change, except .ini and .conf files. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
