Comment 8 for bug 1639186

FWIW I read in [1] that QoS/DPDK were attention of major improvements. The release notes [2] for 2.6 state that QoS functionality with sample egress-policer implementation was enabled for DPDK. Can someone confirm what exactly is the gap caused by patch ports on 2.6?

Taken DPDK aside, if this boils down to QoS does not work with patch ports, what would it take to make it work with patch ports? I appreciate the use case, even in presence of older versions of open vswitch, but we need to have a clear understanding of the entire problem space before we rush into stop-gap solutions that are difficult to move away from (because they impose a migration cost).

[1] http://openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2016/7/0930-pettit.pdf (slide 3)
[2] http://openvswitch.org/releases/NEWS-2.6.0