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Description

Informational

Type

New


Industry Sector

Edge Cloud, Telco


Business driver

VPC, 5G UPF can use SmartNIC to accelerate the performance.


Business use cases

 1. Demonstrate SmartNIC accelerated Edge stack

    1. OVN-K8s in host and OVS offloaded in SmartNIC
  1. Software ecosystem support for SmartNIC platform
  2. Kubernetes support for networking acceleration and SmartNIC


Business Cost - Initial Build Cost Target Objective

  • Upstreamed Linux SDK
  • Common drivers for x86 and Arm
  • Comprehensive Guest OS support
  • Full DPDK support
  • Overlay support (VxLAN, GRE)
  • Hardware offload for Linux tc
  • OpenFlow integration
  • FED OFED & kernel verbs for RoCE v1/2
  • Openstack and remote management
  • Crypto offload drivers


Business Cost – Target Operational Objective

  • OVN/Open vSwitch
    • Open vSwitch offload on SmartNIC platform
  • DPDK
    • Driver support
  • Kubernetes
    • SmartNIC for Kubernetes
    • CPU manager for Kubernetes
    • Huge page support
    • Node Feature Discovery
    • Related CNI projects
  • Virtio
    • Interface to host/VNFs


Security need

  • Crypto offload drivers


Regulations

N/A


Other restrictions

N/A


Additional details

N/A


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