Shivaram Mysore <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,

Hi Shivaram,

Thanks for joining the list.

> I just wanted to share this quick update.
>
> From my yesterday's talk [1] [2], I stated a few issues with making DPDK 
> interface persistent
> across reboots.  In my f2f conversation with Aaron Conole from RedHat, I was 
> made aware that
> those issues are addressed on RedHat platforms (Fedora) as they wrote special 
> driverctl scripts
> to make sure that they do the right set of things.

You can find the upstream version of driverctl at
https://gitlab.com/driverctl/driverctl - any comments or patches are
welcome.

> There are 2 issues related to making DPDK interfaces persistent at least on 
> Ubuntu 17.04
>
> 1 /etc/dpdk/interfaces don't work as intended on Ubuntu - they only load 
> Kernel mode drivers
>  even though user mode driver is specified.
> 2 Once they are bound later, the OVS switch may or may not recognize 
> correctly as the switch
>  itself has started.  Restarting the switch has not given me 100% success.
>
> I believe, these issues are fixed on RedHat platforms per Aaron.  
>
> [1] https://ovs17.sched.com/event/Cnty/ovs-dpdk-installation-and-gotchas
> [2]
> https://github.com/shivarammysore/faucetsdn-intel/tree/master/src/ubuntu/zesty/ovs_281
>
>
> Thanks
>
> /Shivaram
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