Future changes may change the need for cpu core affinitization.
+DPDK Rings :
+------------
+
+Following the steps above to create a bridge, you can now add dpdk rings
+as a port to the vswitch. OVS will expect the DPDK ring device name to
+start with dpdkr and end with a portid.
+
+ ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdkr0 -- set Interface dpdkr0 type=dpdkr
+
+DPDK rings client test application
+
+Included in the test directory is a sample DPDK application for testing
+the rings. This is from the base dpdk directory and modified to work
+with the ring naming used within ovs.
+
+location tests/ovs_client
+
+To run the client :
+
+ ovsclient -c 1 -n 4 --proc-type=secondary -- -n "port id you gave dpdkr"
+
+In the case of the dpdkr example above the "port id you gave dpdkr" is 0.
+
+It is essential to have --proc-type=secondary
+
+The application simply receives an mbuf on the receive queue of the
+ethernet ring and then places that same mbuf on the transmit ring of
+the ethernet ring. It is a trivial loopback application.
+
+In addition to executing the client in the host, you can execute it within
+a guest VM. To do so you will need a patched qemu. You can download the
+patch and getting started guide at :
+
+https://01.org/packet-processing/downloads
+
+A general rule of thumb for better performance is that the client
+application should not be assigned the same dpdk core mask "-c" as
+the vswitchd.
+
Restrictions:
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device queues configured.
- Work with 1500 MTU, needs few changes in DPDK lib to fix this issue.
- Currently DPDK port does not make use any offload functionality.
+ ivshmem
+ - The shared memory is currently restricted to the use of a 1GB
+ huge pages.
+ - All huge pages are shared amongst the host, clients, virtual
+ machines etc.
Bug Reporting:
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