[ovs-discuss] hardware offloading in ovs-2.8

Flavio Leitner fbl at sysclose.org
Wed Nov 8 13:28:01 UTC 2017


On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 11:15:00 +0800 (CST)
王嵘 <rong.wang at easystack.cn> wrote:

> For now, I 'm using the "NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet 168e".
> Another question,  I found  ovs-dpdk can't bind this NIC. But I find there is the support code for 57810 in the DPDK Bnx2x.
> I'm puzzled.
> Can you tell me whether  ovs-dpdk support this NIC?
> 
> Thanks very much!

You need to check that with your software provider. If you compiled
manually, then you need to check the options/config used to build DPDK.

fbl


> 在 2017-11-08 09:11:25,"Ben Pfaff" <blp at ovn.org> 写道:
> >On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 03:49:06PM +0800, 王嵘 wrote:  
> >> Hi,
> >> I'm using ovs-dpdk(ovs2.8/dpdk17.05.2), and I want to use the offload feature. But I dont know how to enable it?
> >> As is represented in the release note 2.8:
> >> 
> >>    - Addexperimental support for hardware offloading
> >>      * HW offloading is disabled by default.
> >> 
> >>      * HW offloading is done through the TC interface.  
> >
> >Do you have a supported NIC?  This feature is currently for a particular
> >model of Mellanox NICs.  



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Flavio



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