Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 07:44:38AM CEST, neelugad...@gmail.com wrote: >Hi All, > >Shall we expect these changes to be available in the upcoming 2.4 release? >or is it still in development?
Still in devel. > > > > > > >On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: > >> Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 03:54:13PM CEST, tg...@suug.ch 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 >> d...@openvswitch.org >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> > > > >-- >Thanks & Regards >Neelakantam Gaddam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
