[openstack-dev] [Nova] FPGA as a resource

Rayson Ho raysonlogin at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 12:48:11 UTC 2016


On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
wrote:
> Most of the
> work to support FPGA will be internal to nova, to deal with modelling
> of assignable devices and their scheduling / allocation.

I think the EPA blueprint already covers some of the FPGA device discovery
& scheduling functionality needed.

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Enhanced-platform-awareness-pcie


However, I was reading the Intel ONP whitepapers earlier, and found that
Intel has dropped coverage of the EPA functionality in 2.1:

 ->
https://download.01.org/packet-processing/ONPS2.1/Intel_ONP_Release_2.1_Reference_Architecture_Guide_Rev1.0.pdf

EPA is mentioned in section "6.3 Enhanced Platform Awareness" in 2.0:

 ->
https://download.01.org/packet-processing/ONPS2.0/Intel_ONP_Release_2.0_Reference_Architecture_Guide_Rev1.0-1.pdf

Rayson

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