On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 1:45 PM Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> wrote:
> > +# Fake a veth by creating a tap on kernel side and plug it in OVS using the
> > +# net/tap DPDK driver.
>
> Why do we need to fake a veth?  It looks strange to me and also error prone
> as taps do not behave like veths in some cases.  Can we just have a veth and
> open it with af_packet ports like all other testsuites do?

When you suggest af_packet port, I suppose you mean netdev-afxdp ports.

My initial reason for plugging net/tap was to have a way to test
DPBUF_DPDK dp-packets through OVS.
Testing with netdev-dpdk only ports should also be closer to
deployments of ovs-dpdk, rather than a mix of kernel netdev and dpdk
ports with the userspace datapath.


-- 
David Marchand

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