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On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Rashid Khan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Added Don, Kevin and Bill from RH side to this thread.
> Sugesh, kindly please keep them in the loop.
>
> Don is our Engineering partner manager (aka coordinator-in-chief) for
> Intel.
> Kevin is manager of EPM team
> And I have asked Bill T from my team to be the front person for this.
>
>
> Looking forward to collaborative effort around this.
>
>
> Thanks
> Rashid
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Chandran, Sugesh <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am setting up next call in this series to discuss further on approaches
>> to enable full hardware acceleration in OVS-DPDK.
>>
>> Agenda for this meeting is to discuss further on two proposals (one from
>> Intel and another from Napatech) for enabling full hardware acceleration in
>> OVS-DPDK.
>>
>> The Previous meeting minutes can be found at following google doc
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KeQB5NIUph721uuk1f1wMy4Q
>> XwSWxlzDaumd_bWX6YI/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> I would encourage everyone to have look at the following two patch series
>> before the call, so that we can have a productive discussion.
>>
>>
>> The Napatech hardware acceleration approach in OVS-DPDK can be found
>> below,
>>
>> >>>>>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As agreed in last meeting, I have created an OVS branch of our OVS fork
>> (from late January - v2.9), and added the Partial hw offload proposal,
>> followed by our full offload extension - 3 additional commits.
>> It should compile against DPDK 17.11, and for that to be possible an
>> existing RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_VF is (mis-)used to send port-id to PMD.
>> Furthermore, tcp_flags update from NIC is commented out due to lack of that
>> field in the RTE FLOW query structure.
>> Please see this as a PoC. It is not yet ready for an actual proposal,
>> though it is fully functioning in our lab.
>>
>> https://github.com/napatech/ovs/tree/hw-full-offload-v1
>>
>> Further notes:
>> As mentioned at the last meeting, this proposal is based on vPorts on NIC
>> (being VF, virtio or other vPort), completely handled outside OVS. The
>> vPorts are then connected and configured in OVS as "normal" type=dpdk
>> ports. I know this is not in-line with Intels proposal, however, we think
>> it might be a good idea. It makes it simpler in OVS, since we only need
>> either capabilities, or trial & error to do transparent full hw-offload.
>> Anyway, this is our current proposal for the next discussion meeting.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Finn
>>
>> >>>>>>
>>
>>
>> The intel hardware acceleration proposal can be found at
>>
>>
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> As discussed in the last meeting, I have created a OVS 2.7 fork with our
>> hardware acceleration implementation as below.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/sugchand/ovs.git (branch - dpdk-hw-accel-intel<
>> https://github.com/sugchand/ovs/tree/dpdk-hw-accel-intel>)
>>
>> Few points on the implementation.
>> 1)      This implementation is just for reference to show the proposal.
>> 2)      The code is still 2.7 based. We will merge to latest branch once
>> we have finalized on the approach.
>> 3)      Some of the hardware acceleration functionalities still missing
>> in this implementation, such as flow offload thread , flow stat and
>> tcp-flag handling. We are working on it to add those support.
>> 4)      This implementation uses some of hardware specific APIs that are
>> not yet available in the DPDK main tree. So the code may not build properly.
>>
>> Please review the implementation (in the last 12 commits), Will setup a
>> follow up call to discuss further on this.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> _Sugesh
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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