Open V Switch is a soft switch and it can work same as normal switch or even more things it can do compare to normal switch. Form somewhere I get to know OVS can run in user space and kernel space both. I used Mininet to create virtual switch and believe it runs at user space as per my understanding so far. I want to know can I run the same switches in kernel mode also and if yes it is possible then how I can and what could be the reason for doing so ?
What I understood for OVS till now is this is a soft switch compare to normal hardware switch and OVS performs all functions which a hardware switch can and on top of that software switch performs more function. Now I want to understand what is pipelining concept and when it is required ?
I saw there are multiple categories of ovs commands: OVS-VSCTL OVS-OFCTL OVS-DPCTL OVS-APPCTL
I want to know the purpose of these different categories of commands and their uses.
