Open vSwitch 2014 Fall Conference: Full vTEP Hardware Offload with SR-IOV and Queue Redirection

Open vSwitch 2014 Fall Conference: Full vTEP Hardware Offload with SR-IOV and Queue Redirection

presented by: Thomas Graf, Noiro Networks

The next generation of host NICs will provide stateful encap offload combined with filtering capabilities on the inner header as well as steering of the eSwitch. Combining these features allows for a partial offload of the flow table to hardware even in complex network virtualization context. Allowing OVS to manage the eSwitch of the NIC will allow to use SR-IOV and hardware queue redirection with OVS to accelerate the communication to guests and services.