Shared memory ring patch
This patch enables the client dpdk rings within the netdev-dpdk. It adds
a new dpdk device called dpdkr (other naming suggestions?). This allows
for the use of shared memory to communicate with other dpdk applications,
on the host or within a virtual machine. Instructions for use are in
INSTALL.DPDK.
This has been tested on Intel multi-core platforms and with the client
application within the host.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Rogers <gerald.rogers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
This commit introduces a new data structure used for receiving packets from
netdevs and passing them to dpifs.
The purpose of this change is to allow storing some private data for each
packet. The subsequent commits make use of it.
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <ddiproietto@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Building OVS tree without DPDK produced the following warning message:
lib/dpif-netdev.c:1868:5: error: statement with no effect
This error message is complaining the return value of the following
macro not being used.
#define pmd_thread_setaffinity_cpu(c) (0)
The patch fixed this warnning by making the stub functions
as inline funtions.
Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Following patch adds DPDK netdev-class to userspace datapath. Now
OVS can use DPDK port for IO by just configuring DPDK port and then
adding dpdk type port to userspace datapath.
Refer to INSTALL.DPDK doc for further info.
This is based a patch from Gerald Rogers.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Rogers <gerald.rogers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
