[ovs-discuss] Question on SRIOV + OpenvSwitch

[Nicholas Bastin]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Bhattiprolu RaviKumar <
ravikumar.bhattiprolu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. Does OpenvSwich and SRIOV can work together? If so, how will OVS know
> about various VFs and packets switched inside the NIC?
>

You can attach a VF to an OVS instance, but only packets that traverse the
VF will actually reach the OVS instance (of course).  If any filtering and
switching is done inside the NIC you need to treat this as a hop
independent of the OVS instance.


> 2. If it is not already supported, are there any plans of supporting SRIOV
> with OVS?
>

What would you expect "support" to mean?

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Nick
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