[ovs-discuss] Questions regarding offload and sriov

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Fri Nov 1 22:50:24 UTC 2013


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir at broadcom.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get an understanding of the flow of packets when openvswitch
> is used in an offloaded lookup setting - NIC/Switch.

They're mutually exclusive - OVS doesn't see the packets when SR-IOV
is in use so there's not much that it can do. Programming the NIC
itself is not really practical because the embedded switch is not fine
grained enough to implement OVS policies.



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