[ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration

[Jayanthi Annadurai]

When the hardware does not support the required action, Will the packet be
routed to root or the VM that is
owning the VF?





On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Alon Harel <alonha at mellanox.com> wrote:

> We are working on enabling OVS to handle SRIOV/VFs. This includes:
> 1. Modeling VFs as netdevs connected to an OVS bridge instance
> 2. Modeling the switch (NIC embedded switch) as a netdev
> (there is an RFC proposed by Jiri in the netdev mailing list)
> 3. Adding the forwarding hardware (NIC embedded switch) underneath the OVS
> kernel datapath.
> The concept is:
> -- Configuration is reflected to the hardware via the netdevs.
> -- Forwarding is done in hardware when actions are supported or in
> software (kernel+user) when hardware does not support the required actions
> per the flow.
>
> We will be more than happy to elaborate the discussion.
>
> Alon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of
> Justin Pettit
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 3:56 AM
> To: Jayanthi Annadurai
> Cc: Wes Felter; discuss at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration
>
> Jayanthi Annadurai wrote:
> > Is the support for SR-IOV on the road map for OVS?
>
> There are no plans from any discussions I've heard.
>
> --Justin
>
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