<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>It's certainly something we're looking at (in Cisco) at the moment. I absolutely think it's worth having a session, though there are several parts to the problem, and it crosses the nova-quantum divide which can make it awkward to schedule:<br>
<br>- SR-IOV and directmap into the hypervisor (we're looking at Zardara Storage's work on this with libvirt, which has never been incorporated into the mainline but basically works fine)<br></div>- scheduling based on resources that are limited in number - that is, scheduling to a machine that has remaining unallocated SRIOV NICs (or whatever else)<br>
</div>- how one might get an SRIOV NIC into a Quantum network<br><br></div><div>And of course, not all devices that you might wish to directmap are NICs.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Migration's not something I've been giving much thought to, I admit.<br>
</div><div>-- <br></div>Ian.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 February 2013 15:45, Jiang, Yunhong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yunhong.jiang@intel.com" target="_blank">yunhong.jiang@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, all<br>
I want to know if there are any plan to support SR-IOV networking in openstack?<br>
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SR-IOV network reduce the CPU utilization greatly and improve the scalability and sharing capability greatly [1]. Combining with bonding driver [2], it can also support live migration.<br>
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However, SR-IOV networking also have some issue traditionally. For example, it's not easy to control flow from SR-IOV NIC, and not easy to setup the tenant network. However, SDN can ease such limitation greatly, also some private environment does not have highly control requirement and will be helpful.<br>
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Any idea? Can this be a topic candidate in design summit?<br>
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Thanks<br>
--jyh<br>
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[1] <a href="http://static.usenix.org/event/wiov08/tech/full_papers/dong/dong.pdf" target="_blank">http://static.usenix.org/event/wiov08/tech/full_papers/dong/dong.pdf</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2008/ols2008v2-pages-261-267.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2008/ols2008v2-pages-261-267.pdf</a><br>
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