Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/3] netdev-dpdk: Arbitrary 'dpdk' port naming

2016-12-13 Thread Daniele Di Proietto
I've been playing with this a little and I've come up with an incremental with these changes: * Detaching fails if port_id is in use by netdev * I suggested before to process the arguments in reconfigure(). I realize now that it's probably better to populate 'port_id' in set_config() and start th

[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/3] netdev-dpdk: Arbitrary 'dpdk' port naming

2016-12-13 Thread Ciara Loftus
'dpdk' ports no longer have naming restrictions. Now, instead of specifying the dpdk port ID as part of the name, the PCI address of the device must be specified via the 'dpdk-devargs' option. eg. ovs-vsctl add-port br0 my-port ovs-vsctl set Interface my-port type=dpdk ovs-vsctl set Interface my-p