Bug 1643478

Summary: Link OVS binaries statically
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli>
Component: openvswitch2.10Assignee: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: liting <tli>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact: Ioanna Gkioka <igkioka>
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.7CC: atelang, atragler, ctrautma, igkioka, kfida, ovs-team, qding
Target Milestone: rc   
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Fixed In Version: openvswitch2.10-2.10.0-22.el7fdn Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
With this update, Open vSwitch (OVS) binaries are linked statically to increase performance when Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) is used.
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: 1643527 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2018-11-05 14:52:25 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Timothy Redaelli 2018-10-26 10:44:48 UTC
Build OVS binaries statically (ovs-vswitchd, etc), but ship the shared libraries (needed for bz#1417738).

This is needed since ovs-vswitchd linked as shared library is noticeably slower (when you use DPDK)

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-05 14:52:25 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3499