Our goal is to offload the datapath to the SR-IOV NIC which has switching capability. And for some flows, the packet has to be routed to OVS datapath (userspace/kernel). Basically, I am trying to use both OVS and vswitch hardware acceleration. Is this possible with SR-IOV NIC?
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Wes Felter <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/18/14 11:35 AM, Jayanthi Annadurai wrote: > >> Introduction: >> I am working on adding hardware acceleration support in OVS. The >> hardware has multiple ethernet ports, SRIO-V and switching capability. >> >> Issue: >> How to add these physical ports to OVS bridge? I am trying to >> understand, whether to connect all the physical ports as a single port >> to OVS bridge or not. >> >> Can someone suggest how to handle this case? >> > > There's some interesting work going on in SnabbSwitch using SR-IOV to get > incoming packets onto the right core and then using a vSwitch to perform > its normal processing. It seems like this optimization could also be used > in OVS. > > The part that I don't understand is how to get SR-IOV to work with LAG. > > -- > Wes Felter > IBM Research - Austin > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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