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charset=\"us-ascii\"", "Content-Transfer-Encoding": "7bit", "Errors-To": "ovs-dev-bounces@openvswitch.org", "Sender": "\"dev\" <ovs-dev-bounces@openvswitch.org>" }, "content": "Introduce a new netdev type - netdev-doca.\nIn order to compile, need to install doca on the build machine.\n\nv2-v1:\n- Fixed licence comment headers.\n- Abandoned dpdk-extra patch. It is a configuration issue and there is\n also [1].\n- Added co-author to some of the commits.\n\n[1] https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2026-February/430134.html\n\nv3-v2:\n- There is a lot of code that can be shared with netdev-dpdk. Refactored it\n to enable sharing.\n- Added documentation files.\n- Styling fixes.\n- Reworked ovs-rcu and refmap patches.\n- Added support for github actions (CI) to compile with doca.\n- Simplified acinclude.m4.\n- Reworked sysfs access. Most of the accesses are now with doca-API.\n- Reworked error paths - returned values, messages and rollbacks.\n\nAriel Levkovich (1):\n acinclude.m4: Add '--with-doca' option.\n\nEli Britstein (8):\n packets: Move ETH_TYPE_LLDP to be a public define.\n netdev-dpdk-private: Refactor declarations from netdev-dpdk.\n netdev-dpdk: Change access from dev->common.xxx to common->xxx.\n netdev-dpdk: Make 'started' field atomic.\n netdev-dpdk: Direct mempool usage.\n netdev-dpdk: Refactor common functions for reuse by netdev-doca.\n unixctl: Introduce unixctl_mem_stream().\n netdev-doca: Introduce doca netdev.\n\nGaetan Rivet (2):\n ovs-rcu: Add support for embedded variant.\n refmap: Introduce reference map.\n\n .ci/doca-build.sh | 36 +\n .ci/doca-install.sh | 20 +\n .github/workflows/build-and-test.yml | 58 +\n Documentation/automake.mk | 2 +\n Documentation/howto/doca.rst | 143 ++\n Documentation/howto/index.rst | 1 +\n Documentation/intro/install/doca.rst | 104 +\n Documentation/intro/install/index.rst | 1 +\n Makefile.am | 2 +\n NEWS | 4 +\n acinclude.m4 | 174 ++\n configure.ac | 3 +-\n lib/automake.mk | 13 +\n lib/dpdk.c | 32 +-\n lib/dpdk.h | 1 +\n lib/guarded-list.c | 10 +\n lib/guarded-list.h | 2 +\n lib/netdev-doca.c | 2898 +++++++++++++++++++++++++\n lib/netdev-doca.h | 159 ++\n lib/netdev-dpdk-private.h | 290 +++\n lib/netdev-dpdk.c | 2163 +++++++++---------\n lib/ovs-doca.c | 812 +++++++\n lib/ovs-doca.h | 113 +\n lib/ovs-lldp.c | 1 -\n lib/ovs-rcu.c | 110 +-\n lib/ovs-rcu.h | 39 +\n lib/packets.h | 7 +-\n lib/refmap.c | 485 +++++\n lib/refmap.h | 130 ++\n lib/unixctl.c | 44 +-\n lib/unixctl.h | 3 +\n tests/automake.mk | 1 +\n tests/library.at | 5 +\n tests/ofproto-macros.at | 1 +\n tests/test-aa.c | 2 -\n tests/test-rcu.c | 131 ++\n tests/test-refmap.c | 894 ++++++++\n utilities/checkpatch_dict.txt | 4 +\n vswitchd/bridge.c | 5 +\n vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.c | 3 +\n vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema | 9 +-\n vswitchd/vswitch.xml | 95 +-\n 42 files changed, 7802 insertions(+), 1208 deletions(-)\n create mode 100755 .ci/doca-build.sh\n create mode 100755 .ci/doca-install.sh\n create mode 100644 Documentation/howto/doca.rst\n create mode 100644 Documentation/intro/install/doca.rst\n create mode 100644 lib/netdev-doca.c\n create mode 100644 lib/netdev-doca.h\n create mode 100644 lib/netdev-dpdk-private.h\n create mode 100644 lib/ovs-doca.c\n create mode 100644 lib/ovs-doca.h\n create mode 100644 lib/refmap.c\n create mode 100644 lib/refmap.h\n create mode 100644 tests/test-refmap.c" }