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On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 11:04, "Nadathur, Sundar" 
<sundar.nadathur at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>     Based on the Victoria PTG discussion [1], here's a stab at making 
> some aspects of the Nova-Neutron-Cyborg interaction more concrete.
> 
> * Background: A smart NIC may have a single 'device' that combines 
> the accelerator and the NIC, or two (or more) components in a single 
> PCI card, with separate accelerator and NIC components.
> 

[snip]

> * Who creates these RPs? I suggest Cyborg create it in all cases, to 
> keep it uniform. Neutron creates RPs today for the bandwidth 
> provider. But, if different services create RPs depend on which 
> feature is enabled and whether it is a single/multi-component device, 
> that can get complex and problematic.  So, could we discuss the 
> possibility of Neutron not creating the RP? The admin should not 
> configure Neutron to handle such NICs.

Neutron today creates the RP only if bandwidth is configured in 
[ovs]/resource_provider_bandwidths or 
[sriov_nic]/resource_provider_bandwidths . So as an initial step you 
can state that smartNIC does not support QoS minimum bandwidth policy 
rules and therefore require the admin not set the above neutron 
configurations. However I think in the long term we would like to 
support QoS minimum bandwidth rules so either we have to find a way 
that the neutron created RP could coexists with the Cyborg proposal, or 
Cyborg needs to grow support for QoS for smartNIC on its own.

[snip]

Cheers,
gibi