NetworkManager Now Supports Making OVS DPDK Interfaces, Other Work For 1.20
NetworkManager 1.19.4 was tagged last week as the latest stepping stone towards the NetworkManager 1.20 stable release. A new feature also making it into NM this past week was support for creating OVS DPDK interfaces -- that's the Open vSwitch Data Plane Development Kit. Open vSwitch's DPDK path allows for lower-latency and higher-performance connectivity between OpenStack compute node instances and now with NetworkManager 1.20 is this better OVS-DPDK integration.
There's also been prep work in the direction of ultimately supporting policy routing for WireGuard, but that isn't yet in tree. Other recent material merged included settings clean-ups, a "disabled" methods for IPv6 to completely disable it for an interface, removing the long-deprecated libnm-glib library, the DHCP client defaulting to "internal", and other improvements.
Those wanting to explore the in-development NetworkManager 1.20 code in more detail can find all the interesting bits via their Gitlab.
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