IEC Type 5: SmartNIC for Integrated Edge Cloud (IEC) Blueprint Family

Attributes

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
• 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

Case Attributes

Description

Informational

Type

New

Blueprint Family - Proposed   Name

Use Case

VPC, 5G UPF

Blueprint proposed Name

Initial POD Cost (capex)

VPC: 1 Rack with 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC

UPF: 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC

Scale & Type

In the gateway, infrastructure service, and edge cloud

Applications

Power Restrictions

SmartNIC: 35W

Infrastructure orchestration

• Kubernetes
  • SmartNIC for Kubernetes
  • CPU manager for Kubernetes
  • Huge page support
  • Node Feature Discovery
  • Related CNI projects

SDN

Workload Type

• Containers
• VMs

Additional Details

Submitter to provide additional use case details