[ovs-dev] Fwd: Re: [PATCH V11 00/33] Introducing HW offload support for openvswitch

[Eelco Chaudron]

FYI HW offload applied to OVS master ;)

//Eelco


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH V11 00/33] Introducing HW offload support 
for openvswitch
Date: 	Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:15:20 +0200
From: 	Simon Horman <simon.horman at netronome.com>
To: 	Roi Dayan <roid at mellanox.com>
CC: 	dev at openvswitch.org, Shahar Klein <shahark at mellanox.com>, Hadar Hen 
Zion <hadarh at mellanox.com>, Rony Efraim <ronye at mellanox.com>, Flavio 
Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri at mellanox.com>, Marcelo 
Ricardo Leitner <mleitner at redhat.com>, Or Gerlitz 
<ogerlitz at mellanox.com>, Andy Gospodarek <andy at greyhouse.net>



On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 06:03:22PM +0300, Roi Dayan wrote:
> This patch series introduces rule offload functionality to dpif-netlink
> via netdev ports new flow offloading API. The user can specify whether to
> enable rule offloading or not via OVS configuration. Netdev providers
> are able to implement netdev flow offload API in order to offload rules.
>
> This patch series also implements one offload scheme for netdev-linux,
> using TC flower classifier, which was chosen because its sort of natural
> to state OVS DP rules for this classifier. However, the code can be
> extended to support other classifiers such as U32, eBPF, etc which support
> offload as well.
>
> The use-case we are currently addressing is the newly sriov switchdev mode
> in the Linux kernel which was introduced in version 4.8.
> This series was tested against sriov vfs vports representors of the
> Mellanox 100G ConnectX-4 series exposed by the mlx5 kernel driver.
>
> The feature is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting
> other_config:hw-offload to True.
> Currently offloading is done for rules consisting on matching on L2 MAC,
> L3 IP (not including IP flags), L4 TCP/UDP (not inclduing TCP flags),
> VLAN, VXLAN tunnel.
> HW offloading is supported only for drop and for single output action with

Thanks Roi,

I have applied these to the master branch
(in two batches; 1 - 7 yesterday and the rest today).

There were some follow-up requests from Flavio for some of the patches,
please lets not forget those.
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