<div dir="ltr">Hi Sean<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Mooney, Sean K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean.k.mooney@intel.com" target="_blank">sean.k.mooney@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Hi james<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Yes we are planning on testing the packaged release to see if it is compatible with our ml2 driver and the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Changes we are submitting upstream. If it is we will add a use binary flag to our devstack plugin to skip the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Compilation step and use that instead on 15.10 or 14.04 cloud-archive:liberty </span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Excellent.</div><div> <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">As part of your packaging did ye fix pciutils to correctly report the unused drivers when an interface is bound<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">The dpdk driver? Also does it support both igb_uio and/or vfio-pci drivers for dpdk interface?</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Re pcituils, we've not done any work in that area - can you give an example of what you would expect?</div><div><br></div><div>The dpdk package supports both driver types in /etc/dpdk/interfaces - when you declare an adapter for use, you get to specify the module you want to use as well; we're relying the in-tree kernel drivers (uio-pci-generic and vfio-pci) right now.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Anyway yes I hope to check it out and seeing what ye have done. When ovs-dpdk starts getting packaged in more operating systems<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">We will probably swap our default to the binary install though we will keep the source install option as it allows us to work on new features<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Before they are packaged and to have better performance.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That sounds sensible; re 'better performance' - yeah we do have to baseline the optimizations at compile time right now (ssse3 only right now) , but I really hope that does change so that we can move to a runtime CPU feature detection model, allowing the best possible performance through the packages we have in Ubuntu (or any other distribution for that matter).</div><div> </div></div></div></div>