> Hello, > I am working on PF/VF driver for PCI-E based SR-IOV capable card. This > device has got few cpus and ram and is capable of running linux and any > linux-userland application on the device it self. Register layout (for > datapath > like TX/RX ring, stats etc.) between host and device is defined by the > software running on the device and hence it can be extended to offload any > feature as per the need. > Currently i run application on device which exposes device as a Network > Interface card with 16 Functions (1PF + 15VF).
Have you thought about how to represent the virtual functions in open vswitch? We've done some investigation into how they could be implemented as a type of netdev. >At present i steer packets to a > particular port/function based on the L2 Destination address. I want to > extend this to support OVS style of forwarding (lookup + action) rather than > only L2 Dest Address. > I came across ovs-dp-offload changes available in linux-3.19.3 for offloading > flows to device. I have following questions regarding the same, 1. Is there > any device driver that makes use of these changes to offload flows/action ? > 2. I saw a new "netlink" interface added to add flows/actions to the switch > device. Does ovs-ofctl usethis new netlink to add flows to the hardware? Or > is there any other utility to do the same? > > Thanks,Mehul. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
