[ovs-dev] [PATCH v5 0/5] OVS-DPDK flow offload with rte_flow

[Finn Christensen]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Simon Horman [mailto:simon.horman at netronome.com]
>Sent: 12. januar 2018 08:55
>To: Chandran, Sugesh <sugesh.chandran at intel.com>
>Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yliu at fridaylinux.org>; Finn Christensen
><fc at napatech.com>; Darrell Ball <dball at vmware.com>; Stokes, Ian
><ian.stokes at intel.com>; Loftus, Ciara <ciara.loftus at intel.com>;
>dev at openvswitch.org
>Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] OVS-DPDK flow offload with rte_flow
>
>On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 02:53:19PM +0000, Chandran, Sugesh wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Based on the comments below, I wanted to call out for a meeting to decide
>what further needs to be done to handle different kinds of hardware
>acceleration in OVS-DPDK. We have some POC implementation that partially
>handles some of the cases , But it only work with some of Intel hardware
>acceleration products. I also did a presentation about that proposal in the last
>OVS conference. I feel its time to discuss now to come up with a design that
>work for all different hardware acceleration devices and possible acceleration
>modes.
>> If all are agree on the above suggestion, I can send out for a meeting invite
>sometime next week.(May be Jan15th, Monday 5:00PM GMT). Let me know
>if this timeslot is OK for everyone.
>>
>> I am ccing the 'dev' mailing list as well here in case if anyone else wanted to
>join the call and provide the inputs.
>
>As per the brief discussion of this at the OVS-DPDK meeting on Wednesday I
>agree this is a good idea. Please include me on the invitation (or point me to
>the invitation if its already out).

Please invite me also, I want to get back as soon as possible with our view of full 
offload, but haven't got around it yet. We have been working on it for a while and
want to actively participate in this discussion.

Thanks,
Finn