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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the last few week I was working on hardware offload support for openvswitch.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The idea is to leverage SR-IOV technology with OVS control plane management.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just last month the ovs community merged all the required patches to enable this feature [1] should be in OVS-2.8.0.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was working on the required patches to enable this in OpenStack.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the neutron side the RFE approved [2] and the neutron patch is already merged [3]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the OS-VIF side the patch is merged [4]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the Third party CI side we have a Mellanox CI which is currently commenting on os-vif [5] ( we will extend it to nova and neutron as well)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The missing piece is the nova patch [6]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I just notice that this week is feature freeze in OpenStack and I would like to request an exception for this feature.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I will appreciate if nova-core reviewers will review it. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">( Jay , Sean and Jan already review it several times and I think it is close to be merged) <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[1] - <a href="https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/bf090264e68d160d0ae70ebc93d59bc09d34cc8b">
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/bf090264e68d160d0ae70ebc93d59bc09d34cc8b</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[2] - <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1627987">
https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1627987</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[3] - <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/275616/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/275616/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[4] - <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/460278/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/460278/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[5] - <a href="http://52.169.200.208/25/485125/6/check-os-vif/OVS_HW_offload/aaf2792/">
http://52.169.200.208/25/485125/6/check-os-vif/OVS_HW_offload/aaf2792/</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[6] - <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/398265/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/398265/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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