Pike Series Release Notes

7.0.0

Upgrade Notes

• Support for OVS-DPDK is being extended for OvS 2.6 while retaining the backward compatibility with OvS 2.5. In OvS 2.5 the DPDK parameters are written as DPDK_OPTIONS to a sysconfig file, while in OvS 2.6 the DPDK parameters are configured as ovsdb entries

• Parameter ‘memory_channels’ is required for OvS 2.5, while in OvS 2.6 its optional

• parameter ‘driver_type’ is required only for OvS 2.5. Shall be deprecated when OvS 2.5 support is discontinued