Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration

2014-05-04 Thread Alon Harel
Cc: Justin Pettit; Wes Felter; discuss@openvswitch.org; Rony Efraim; Or Gerlitz Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration 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

Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration

2014-04-17 Thread Jayanthi Annadurai
; > > -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

Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration

2014-04-02 Thread Alon Harel
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

Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration

2014-03-25 Thread Justin Pettit
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

Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration

2014-03-25 Thread Jayanthi Annadurai
Is the support for SR-IOV on the road map for OVS? On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Wes Felter wrote: > On 3/20/14 7:21 PM, Jayanthi Annadurai wrote: > >> Our goal is to offload the datapath to the SR-IOV NIC which has >> switching capability. >> And for some flows, the packet has to be routed

Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration

2014-03-21 Thread Wes Felter
On 3/20/14 7:21 PM, Jayanthi Annadurai wrote: Our goal is to offload the datapath to the SR-IOV NIC which has switching capability. And for some flows, the packet has to be routed to OVS datapath (userspace/kernel). Basically, I am trying to use both OVS and vswitch hardware acceleration. Is this

Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration

2014-03-20 Thread Ramana Reddy
Basically, you can map each virtual nic card to one VM and the physical interface is the slave of bridge interface of OVS. By default, the offload is accelerated, so some how you can switch between the accelerated path and OVS path. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:51 AM, Jayanthi Annadurai wrote: >

Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration

2014-03-20 Thread Jayanthi Annadurai
Our goal is to offload the datapath to the SR-IOV NIC which has switching capability. And for some flows, the packet has to be routed to OVS datapath (userspace/kernel). Basically, I am trying to use both OVS and vswitch hardware acceleration. Is this possible with SR-IOV NIC? On Thu, Mar 20

Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration

2014-03-20 Thread Wes Felter
On 3/18/14 11:35 AM, Jayanthi Annadurai wrote: Introduction: I am working on adding hardware acceleration support in OVS. The hardware has multiple ethernet ports, SRIO-V and switching capability. Issue: How to add these physical ports to OVS bridge? I am trying to understand, whether to connect

[ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch hardware Acceleration

2014-03-18 Thread Jayanthi Annadurai
Introduction: I am working on adding hardware acceleration support in OVS. The hardware has multiple ethernet ports, SRIO-V and switching capability. Issue: How to add these physical ports to OVS bridge? I am trying to understand, whether to connect all the physical ports as a single port to OVS b