Hi All, Shall we expect these changes to be available in the upcoming 2.4 release? or is it still in development?
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Jiri Pirko <[email protected]> wrote: > Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 03:54:13PM CEST, [email protected] wrote: > >On 09/03/14 at 11:24am, Jiri Pirko wrote: > >> This patchset can be divided into 3 main sections: > >> - introduce switchdev api for implementing switch drivers > >> - add hardware acceleration bits into openvswitch datapath, This uses > >> previously mentioned switchdev api > >> - introduce rocker switch driver which implements switchdev api > > > >Jiri, Scott, > > > >Enclosed is the GOOG doc which outlines some details on my particular > >interests [0]. It includes several diagrams which might help to > >understand the overall arch. It is highly related to John's work as > >well. Please let me know if something does not align with the model > >you have in mind. > > > Hi Thomas. > > Sorry for late answer, I returned from vacation yesterday. > I went over your document, I did not find anything which would not align > with our approach. Looks good to me. > > > > >Summary: > >The full virtual tunnel endpoint flow offload attempts to offload full > >flows to the hardware and utilize the embedded switch on the host NIC > >to empower the eSwitch with the required flexibility of the software > >driven network. In this model, the guest (VM or LXC) attaches through a > >SR-IOV VF which serves as the primary path. A slow path / software path > >is provided via the CPU which can route packets back into the VF by > >tagging packets with forwarding metadata and sending the frame back to > >the NIC. > > > >[0] > https://docs.google.com/document/d/195waUliu7G5YYVuXHmLmHgJ38DFSte321WPq0oaFhyU/edit?usp=sharing > >(Publicly accessible and open for comments) > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > -- Thanks & Regards Neelakantam Gaddam _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
