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our own offload code which enables the full hardware offload with DPDK rte_flow APIs.
We have plans to open-source this OVS-DPDK. More detailed details will be provided in the future documentation.
Akraino Test Group Information
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The Jenkins will use ansible plugin to download BF drivers and FS image in the test server and setup the environment
according to the ansible-playbook.
| Image | download link |
|---|---|
| BlueField-2.5.1.11213.tar.xz | https://www.mellanox.com/products/software/bluefield |
| core-image-full-dev-BlueField-2.5.1.11213.2.5.3.tar.xz | https://www.mellanox.com/products/software/bluefield |
| mft-4.14.0-105-x86_64-deb.tgz | |
| MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.0-2.1.8.0-debian8.11-x86_64.tgz |
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The software used and the ovsOVS-dpdk DPDK setup is shown belowedbelow.
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| SmartNICs | BlueField v1, 25Gbps |
| DPDK | version 19.11 |
| vSwitch | OVS-DPDK 2.12 with VXLAN DECAP/ENCAP offload enabled. |
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Open vSwitch itself contains a test suite for functional test, the link is http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/topics/testing/
We have ran run the basic test suite according to the link.
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| OVS-DPDK | OF rules | Traffic | pktgen pps | received pps (hw) | received pps (no hw) | PMD idle cycles w/ hw offload | PMD idle cycles w/o hw offload |
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| 1 PMD(s) | Directly forwarding without the match "in_port=vxlan-vtp, actions=output: pf1hpf" | single TCP flow with VXLAN encapsulation | 24.6Mpps | 23.9Mpps | 745156 | 99% | 0% |
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| OVS-DPDK | OF rules | Traffic | pktgen pps | received pps (hw) | received pps (no hw) | PMD idle cycles w/ hw offload | PMD idle cycles w/o hw offload |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 PMD(s) | Directly forwarding without the match "in_port=vxlan-vtp, actions=output: pf1vf0" | single TCP flow with VXLAN encapsulation | 24.6Mpps | 23.8Mpps | 747097 | 99% | 0% |
| 1 PMD(s) | match and forwarding 100 rules "in_port=vxlan-vtp,ip,nw_dst=10.1.1.[1-100] actions=pf1vf0" | 100 flows with nw_dst=10.1.1.[1-100] | 24.6Mpps | 21.6Mpps (100 megaflows offloaded) | 624161 | 99% | 0% |
| 1 PMD(s) | match and forwarding 1000 rules "in_port=vxlan-vtp,ip,nw_dst=10.1.[1-10].[1-100] actions=pf1vf0" | 1000 flows with nw_dst=10.1.[1-10].[1-100] 891 flows (due to pktgen limit, only 891 flows are loaded) | 24.6Mpps | 23.3Mpps (891 megaflows offloaded) | 524144 | 99% | 0% |
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