On 8/30/23 18:17, David Marchand wrote:
> 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.

That didn't save it from having completely broken checksum offloading.
I suppose both the tap and af_packet can be tested in DPDK's CI.

The net/af_xdp DPDK driver might be a better maintained alternative as well,
I guess.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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