On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:10:38AM +0800, 刘超 wrote:
> Hi, I have a question about deploying openvswitch with DPDK
> 
> 
> As we know, normal network package will first go through openvswitch.ko to 
> find a flow table entry in the kernel, if not found, then the package will go 
> to user mode to look for the flow table entry.
> 
> 
> But If we use DPDK, the package arriving at the DPDK port directly goes to 
> the user mode, will it go to the kernel mode again and then back to user 
> mode? or it just looks for the flow table entry in the user mode and bypass 
> the kernel flow table directly.

No kernel module is involved at all when OVS uses DPDK.
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