On 5 December 2017 at 06:00, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The route table lookup also really expensive on the main cpu. > > To clarify the context here, I was asking specifically if the X5 mellonox card > did routing table offlload or only switching. > To clarify what I know the X5 using it's smart offload engine CAN do L3 offload into the NIC - the X4's can't.
So for the Nuage OVS -> Eswitch (what mellanox calls the flow programming) magic to happen and be useful we are going to need X5. Mark Iskra gave a talk at Openstack summit which can be found here: https://www.openstack.org/videos/sydney-2017/warp-speed-openvswitch-turbo-charge-vnfs-to-100gbps-in-nextgen-sdnnfv-datacenter Slides here: https://www.openstack.org/assets/presentation-media/OSS-Nov-2017-Warp-speed-Openvswitch-v6.pptx Mark's local to you (Mountain View) - and is a nice guy, is probably the better person to answer specifics. -Joel
