On 14 Apr 2023, at 12:15, Tom Jay via discuss wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Another way of asking the question is, what's the cheapest I can experiment 
> with OVS for, whilst still using the hardware offload features?

The first question is what kind of hardware offload do you want to experiment 
with? Either OVS-DPDK (rte_flow) or OVS-kernel which relies on tc.

I’ve used both Netronome and Mellanox connectx5/6 cards with both. I have not 
tried an Intel E810, but I think it supports TC offload also.

Some of the earlier (Intel) blades can do partial hardware offload with 
rte_flow. See 
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/01/09/speeding-up-open-vswitch-with-partial-hardware-offloading.

Cheers,

Eelco

> I've found the 'Intel I350 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters', not sure if this is 
> what I'm looking for.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tom
>
> On 10/04/2023 21:43, Raymond Burkholder via discuss wrote:
>> On 4/10/23 06:52, Tom Jay via discuss wrote:
>>> I'm interested in trying OVS and would like to try the hardware features 
>>> (hardware offloading). Is there a list of hardware that OVS is compatible 
>>> with?
>>>
>> try the mellanox connectx5/6 cards.  Their web site describes how to get the 
>> various functions functional.
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