Hi Or, On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:54:40PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Simon Horman > <simon.hor...@netronome.com> wrote: > > > A different approach, not implemented by this patch-set, is for user-space > > to program flows into hardware by some other means, for example TC, and/or > > the (kernel) datapath. > > Right, and we've submitted that code to the OVS community 24h ago [1]. > > This was done along the feedback we've got for the last two years (since > the LPC 2014 networking micro-conf). It allows offloading from > multiple user-space > applications through a single UAPI -- the TC one (currently we did > flower, but the OVSD > patch set can be extended to use whatever TC offloads are supported by > the port driver, > e.g U32, eBPF) and integration with 3rd party policy modules running > in user-space. > > Lets hear people opinions and see where we go from now. > > > I believe that approach does not conflict with this one. > > And there is some scope to share infrastructure in the kernel > > maybe, possibly > > We've having a talk in netdev 1.2 on offloading HW offloading of OVS > and similar applications, > I would encourage people to come and approach me and/or Rony Efraim > from Mellanox before/after > the talk to discuss that F2F, would love to get feedbacks, and also here...
Thanks for putting my post in context with the work you mention. I am looking forward to some F2F discussions next week. > Or. > > [1] pointers to patches implementing the 2nd approach > > cover-letter http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-September/079952.html > > patches > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/675560/ > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/675567/ > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/675565/ > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/675559/ > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/675564/ > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/675563/ > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/675568/ > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/675566/ > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/675562/ > > [2] http://www.netdevconf.org/1.2/session.html?rony-efraim-1
