When the hardware does not support the required action, Will the packet be routed to root or the VM that is owning the VF?
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Alon Harel <alo...@mellanox.com> wrote: > 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 >
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