On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 6:09 PM Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 8/30/23 18:02, David Marchand wrote: > > 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. > > No, I meant DPDK's drivers/net/af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c.
That's something I can investigate, though it's been a long time (in a previous life) since I played with it. In comparison net/tap seems widely used to me. /me opens https://bugs.dpdk.org/enter_bug.cgi in preparation -- David Marchand _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
