Guys, Any comments to OVS upgrade to dpdk 18.08? https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=72606
Regards, Ophir > -----Original Message----- > From: Stokes, Ian [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 5:52 PM > To: Andrzej Ostruszka <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Cc: Ophir Munk <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [ovs-discuss] OvS using newer DPDK > > > Hello all, > > > > I remember some time ago there was topic raised here about new LTS > > release. I'd like to ask related question - what version of DPDK will > > it be based on? 18.11 (which is going to be new LTS release of DPDK)? > > > > Yes, the plan would be ideally to move to DPDK 18.11. > > > If it is then is there anybody already working on that? > > Yes, the dpdk_latest branch was setup for this purpose. > > There are patches submitted to move OVS to use DPDK 18.08 first. From > there a new set of patches will be created to move to DPDK 18.11. Once > there is agreement and sign off from the OVS DPDK community we would > look to apply those to the OVS master branch in time for the OVS 2.11 > release. > > > > > I'm asking these questions since I've nailed the reason for getting > > OvS crashes on Marvell Armada 8K board. They are while attempting to > > set MTU and there are some patches affecting MTU/MRU calculations that > might help. > > Are these patches targeted at OVS project or the DPDK project? > > > So basically I might attempt to backport them or try to get OvS > > working with newer DPDK. > > OVS is moving towards using DPDK LTS releases only for OVS releases and > the master branch. > > If the patches target DPDK then they could be backported to the relevant > DPDK LTS releases. Once in place there you could also backport support to > OVS 2.9 and OVS 2.10 which use DPDK 17.11. > > > Since I prefer the latter I would like to join somebody doing this > > update (I don't feel comfortable enough with OvS to do that on my > > own). > > Ok sure, there is not a patch to make DPDK use 18.11 yet. That's in progress. > I've cc'd Ophir who has been looking at this to date. Once there is a patch > for > 18.11 if you could test it with the Marvell device that would be great help. > > Thanks > Ian > > > > Best regards > > Andrzej > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > > https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmai > > l.openvswitch.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fovs- > discuss&data=02%7C01% > > > 7Cophirmu%40mellanox.com%7C331523e48ebe430445d008d63f48bffd%7C > a652971c > > > 7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7C0%7C0%7C636765979023036325&sda > ta=WbdP%2 > > > FAlmdnLB%2FkX1DeK%2F9vHN3oaBD2DWrXKyG%2Bc7uzQ%3D&reserv > ed=0 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
