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-boun...@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Justin Pettit Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 3:56 AM To: Jayanthi Annadurai Cc: Wes Felter; discuss@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 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
