DescriptionSlava Shwartsman
2017-07-03 13:38:01 UTC
1. Feature Overview:
a) Name of feature:
Add support for OVS HW offload
b) Feature description:
This FR will allow OVS mech driver to bind direct (SR-IOV) port.
This will allow to offload the OVS flows using tc to the SR-IOV NIC
and gain accelerate OVS.
2. Feature Details:
a) Architectures:
x86_64, ppc64le, ppc64, aarch64
b) Bugzilla dependencies:
c) Drivers or hardware dependencies:
Kernel support for traffic Control hardware offloads framework for SR-IOV VFs.
HW offload support in OpenVSwitch.
d) Upstream acceptance information:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/275616/https://review.openstack.org/#/c/452530/
e) External links:
f) Severity (H, M, L):
High
g) Feature needed by:
Partner: Mellanox
3. Business Justification:
a) why is this feature needed?
b) What hardware does this enable?
c) Business impact?
d) Other business drivers?
4. Primary contact at Red Hat, email, phone (chat):
Andre Beausoleil abeausol
5. Primary contact at Partner, email. phone (chat):
Kamal Heib kheib, Slava Shwartsman sshwarts, Noa Spanier noas
We're treating this as an upstream / partner patch, not an in-house RFE. We will not perform in-house testing for OSP 12, so I'm removing the RFE keyword.