Yes but how is that integrated into OVN?
On 15/02/2022 16:41, Tony Liu wrote:
SRIOV connects VM directly to NIC VF and bypasses virtual networking stack.
SmartNIC is another story where virtual networking stack can be installed on
the NIC.
SRIOV is supported by Neutron.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/xena/admin/config-sriov.html__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!eHoUiPE3yK4G7wru3NHOe4xZEY8JZCTBMzsMhhoNnkr7oZQDSf-4QrFyS4Y5t7g5lTU$
Tony
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Kinda looking for at a high level yes it is possible and is integrated into
ovn control plane, or not not there yet. At a high level first.
And is anyone doing this.
On 15/02/2022 14:03, Satish Patel wrote:
Not sure if this is what you are looking for
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.nvidia.com/networking/display/TAN10/ASAP*OVS*Offload__;Kys!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!dFnukkvR8ggDcHotwyqXNVu8B3dWlc7LBGXbc5fECYqHdok6NIeoKkz5aSlp-RCKC10$
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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/charm-deployment-guide/wallaby/app-ovn.html*configuration__;Iw!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!dFnukkvR8ggDcHotwyqXNVu8B3dWlc7LBGXbc5fECYqHdok6NIeoKkz5aSlpwu75q1Q$
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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