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Attributes

Description

Informational

Type

New

Industry Sector

Edge Cloud

Business driver

VPC

Business use cases

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 & 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

Other restrictions

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