[ovs-dev] [PATCH ovs V3 00/25] Introducing HW offload support for openvswitch

Simon Horman simon.horman at netronome.com
Fri Mar 10 08:46:55 UTC 2017


On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 05:29:13PM +0200, 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 [1][2].
> This series was tested against sriov vfs vports representors of the
> Mellanox 100G ConnectX-4 series exposed by the mlx5 kernel driver.

Hi Roi,

its been a little while since v3 was posted.
I'd like to encourage you to post v4 and with a view to moving
towards getting this feature accepted.


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