Not sure if this is what you are looking for
https://docs.nvidia.com/networking/display/TAN10/ASAP+OVS+Offload

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 5:47 AM Brendan Doyle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to understand if OVN supports SR-IOV. I found some OpentStack
> documentation:
> https://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/charm-deployment-guide/wallaby/app-ovn.html#configuration
> that suggests it might, but it is short on details, with specifics
> abstracted via the OpenStack CMS.
>
> Also in the OVN Architecture documentation there are hints to support:
>
> "For  instances  connected through  representor  ports, typically used
> with hardware
>    offload, the ovn-controller may on CMS direction  consult   a  VIF
> plug provider for
>    representor port lookup and plug   them into the integration bridge
> (please refer  to
>   Docu mentation/topics/vif-plug-providers/vif-plug-providers.rst for
> more information)."
>
> But again short on details.
>
> So I believe something like a CX-5/6/7 would have the capability to do
> this, but here would have to be some
> sort of OVN hook for the OVS flows created by OVN  to be "copied/moved"
> to the H/W so that encapsulation,
> NAT, distributed routing ACLs etc is done in the hardware. I can't find
> any details on this nor what would the
> control plane for programing the hardware be to do that, ovn-nbctl?,
> ovsdbapp? some other out of band control plane?.
> Also from what I gather from the OpenStack docs this seems experimental
> and limited to VXLAN encapsulation?
>
> At present I use a libvirt OVN hook that hooks KVM/QEMU VMs into OVN
> br-int but these are using
> software VIFs. I'm trying to ascertain if can have these VM use SR-IOV,
> and still have them integrated
> into the OVN logical networks.
>
>
> Any pointers would welcome.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Brendan
>
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