Sorry this should be an RFC patch. William
On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 05:30:31PM -0700, William Tu wrote: > Once a packet buffer is in userspace, ex: AF_XDP, it's very expensive > to re-inject the packet into Linux kernel. The patch adds a new netdev > type, memif, which uses libmemif from VPP (vector packet processing) > project to communicate in userspace with container applications. > > Another way to use memif is to use OVS-DPDK, which compiles and links > the DPDK library (The latest DPDK library has memif driver support). > But the patch provides native support for memif, so no need to use > DPDK library. Users can add a memif device by doing: > ovs-vsctl add-port br0 memif0 -- set int memif0 type=memif > > Signed-off-by: William Tu <[email protected]> > --- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
