Hello Kendall: I can confirm that hardware offload (datapath offload in ML2/OVS and ML2/OVN) is currently used in several deployments and it's being tested internally in my company. However there are no upstream specific highlights about this topic right now. In the next cycle (or cycles) our plan is to create an external CI testing both mechanism drivers with HW NICs. Regards. On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:46 PM Kendall Nelson <kennelson11@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello folks!
So, as the OpenInfra Foundation has begun putting together the release marking materials for the Bobcat release, we noticed a trend focused on enabling hardware and increasing utilization. Ironic in particular had an excellent cycle highlight about DPUs[1]. We wanted to quickly reach out and see if there were any cycle highlights that projects maybe haven't published in a review, but are related to this topic. Please respond ASAP as we are moving fast on finalizing the press release.
Also, if there is anything related coming in Caracal, we might be able to call that out as well, though I know it's quite early to know what might be landing in 2024.1.
If there are other cycle highlights that should get called out as well, definitely push the patches and add me as a reviewer!
-Kendall Nelson
[1] https://releases.openstack.org/bobcat/highlights.html#ironic