This commit can be seen as a partial revert of commit
da4a619179d (netdev: Globally track port status changes)
by adding the 'change_seq' to 'struct netdev'.
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
On DPDK packet recv, ovs is given pointer to mbuf which has
information about a packet, for example pointer to data and size.
By moving mbuf to ofpbuf we can let dpdk allocate ofpbuf and
pass that to ovs for processing the packet.
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@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>
