On 7/26/2017 10:42 PM, Moshe Levi wrote: > Hi all, > > In the last few week I was working on hardware offload support for > openvswitch. > > The idea is to leverage SR-IOV technology with OVS control plane management. > > Just last month the ovs community merged all the required patches to > enable this feature [1] should be in OVS-2.8.0. > > I was working on the required patches to enable this in OpenStack. > > On the neutron side the RFE approved [2] and the neutron patch is > already merged [3] > > On the OS-VIF side the patch is merged [4] > > 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) > > The missing piece is the nova patch [6] > > I just notice that this week is feature freeze in OpenStack and I would > like to request an exception for this feature. > > I will appreciate if nova-core reviewers will review it. > > ( Jay , Sean and Jan already review it several times and I think it is > close to be merged) > > [1] - > https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/bf090264e68d160d0ae70ebc93d59bc09d34cc8b > > > [2] - https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1627987 > > [3] - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/275616/ > > [4] - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/460278/ > > [5] - > http://52.169.200.208/25/485125/6/check-os-vif/OVS_HW_offload/aaf2792/ > > [6] - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/398265/ > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: OpenStack-dev-request at lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > Given everything else done here and the change in nova is (1) a single change and (2) self-contained and (3) relatively uncomplicated, I'm OK with this. Please create a blueprint in nova so we can track it as a feature since that's what it is. -- Thanks, Matt