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Introduction
Introduction
The R3 release will evaluation the throughput and packet forwarding performance of the Mellanox BlueField SmartNIC card.
A DPDK based Open vSwitch (OVS-DPDK) is used as the virtual switch, and the network traffic is virtualized with the VXLAN encapsulation.
Currently, the community version OVS-DPDK is considered experimental and not mature enough, it only supports "partial offload" which cannot
utilize the full performance advantage of Mellanox NICs. Thus the OVS-DPDK we used is a fork of the community Open vSwitch. We develop
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 will be provided in the future documentation.<Details about Additional tests required for this Blue Print in addition to the Akraino Validation Feature Project>
Akarino Test Group Information
<The Testing Ecosystem>
Testing Working Group Resources
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Additional Testing
Bottlenecks/Errata
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Introduction
The R3 release will evaluation the throughput and packet forwarding performance of the Mellanox BlueField SmartNIC card.
A DPDK based Open vSwitch (OVS-DPDK) is used as the virtual switch, and the network traffic is virtualized with the VXLAN encapsulation.
Currently, the community version OVS-DPDK is considered experimental and not mature enough, it only supports "partial offload" which cannot
utilize the full performance advantage of Mellanox NICs. Thus the OVS-DPDK we used is a fork of the community Open vSwitch. We develop
our own offload code which enables the full hardware offload with DPDK rte_flow APIs.
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Akarino Test Group Information
Overall Test Architecture
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