[ovs-discuss] Issue with offloading OVS flows into Mellanox-4 cards

[Roi Dayan]

On 07/07/2017 17:36, Sugu Chandran wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to test hardware offloading feature in OVS using a 2*25G
> mellanox NIC.   My test setup has static OVS L2 rules to forward packets
> between these two ports. The traffic generators are connected to these
> ports to pump in traffic.
> The hardware offloading is enabled in the system by using,
>     ovs-vsctl --no-wait set Open_vSwitch . other_config:hw-offload=true
> I didnt set any hw-policy explicit,  as I kept it default as 'None'
>
> I noticed that when I am sending traffic to these ports, there are no
> rules that are getting programmed into the hardware. Also there are no
> error reported in ovs-vswitchd.log as such.
> Of Course the packets are getting forwarded in software.  Is there
> anything else needs to be done to make the TC for programming the
> mellanox NICs?
>
> Regards
> _Sugu
>
>

Hi Sugo,

Since you do not have errors in the log did you check if the rules
were added to tc software?
you can dump like this:
# tc -s filter show dev ens5f0 ingress

You need to enable the offload feature on the HCA with ethtool.
example:
# ethtool -K ens5f0 hw-tc-offload on

We still need to work on docs for this feature but for now I
documented it a little here:
https://github.com/roidayan/ovs/wiki

Thanks,
Roi


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