On 8/30/23 18:25, Ilya Maximets wrote: > 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.
(I meant CI of the DPDK project) > > The net/af_xdp DPDK driver might be a better maintained alternative as well, > I guess. > > Best regards, Ilya Maximets. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
