Is the support for SR-IOV on the road map for OVS?

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Wes Felter <w...@felter.org> wrote:

> On 3/20/14 7:21 PM, Jayanthi Annadurai wrote:
>
>> Our goal is to offload the datapath to the SR-IOV NIC which has
>> switching capability.
>> And for some flows, the packet has to be routed to OVS datapath
>> (userspace/kernel).
>> Basically, I am trying to use both OVS and vswitch hardware
>> acceleration. Is this
>> possible with SR-IOV NIC?
>>
>
> The problem here is that you'd probably need to have two interfaces inside
> the VM and the VM would have to decide which packet to send to which
> interface.
>
>
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> Wes Felter
> IBM Research - Austin
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