Re: [ovs-discuss] Best 10GB adapter for offloading OVS

2013-03-27 Thread Ramana Reddy
Once we mapped the virtual NIC to particular VM, the OVS does not come into the process( OVS usually installed in Hypervisor). All packets are directly go through the VNIC and through the outside world. This is case with SFC ( SR-IOV) or Intel (IO-MMU) 10Gb cards. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:51

Re: [ovs-discuss] Best 10GB adapter for offloading OVS

2013-03-27 Thread Jesse Gross
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) wrote: > > On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Atam wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> OVS is a software solution switch as i understand. It is able to utilize >>> offloading features of the Eth

Re: [ovs-discuss] Best 10GB adapter for offloading OVS

2013-03-27 Thread Kyle Mestery (kmestery)
On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Atam wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> OVS is a software solution switch as i understand. It is able to utilize >> offloading features of the Ethernet adapter I read somewhere... >> >> - What features are those? Is it

Re: [ovs-discuss] Best 10GB adapter for offloading OVS

2013-03-27 Thread Atam
Jesse, thanks a lot for the insights, Kind regards, Atam On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Atam wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > OVS is a software solution switch as i understand. It is able to utilize > > offloading features of the Ethernet adap

Re: [ovs-discuss] Best 10GB adapter for offloading OVS

2013-03-27 Thread Jesse Gross
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Atam wrote: > Hi all, > > OVS is a software solution switch as i understand. It is able to utilize > offloading features of the Ethernet adapter I read somewhere... > > - What features are those? Is it desirable to invest in 10GB adapters with > full TCP chimney s

[ovs-discuss] Best 10GB adapter for offloading OVS

2013-03-27 Thread Atam
Hi all, OVS is a software solution switch as i understand. It is able to utilize offloading features of the Ethernet adapter I read somewhere... - What features are those? Is it desirable to invest in 10GB adapters with full TCP chimney support like Emulex (OCe11102) or Broadcom (57810S) ? Or is