Hi Jesse, Thanks your reply. Is the user space vxlan module copy from the linux kernel vxlan module? The tunnel usage is the same to me if I upgrade ovs 2.3 to ovs 2.4, right?
2015-09-10 1:56 GMT+08:00 Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com>: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Na Zhu <zhunat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The OVS 2.4 claims it supports DPDK tunneling, I am confused about how it > > support, because native OVS vxlan depends on linux kernel vxlan module, > but > > OVS dpdk runs on user space, does OVS 2.4 include a user space vxlan > module? > > Yes. > > > I read the file README-native-tunneling.md, i find a different configure > > from native OVS, it is add route to ovs route table, i did not know ovs > has > > route table, can anyone explain what is the relationship between route > > table and tunnel? > > Tunnels need to send packets over an IP stack associated with the > endpoint and the IP stack needs a routing table to know where to send > packets. With kernel based tunnels, it is the Linux routing table that > is use but an equivalent is needed when DPDK is used instead. In > general, this can be synced automatically from the kernel table and > nothing needs to be configured by hand. > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev