SOLUTION BRIEF Telecommunications Server Performance Increase NFVi Performance and Flexibility
HCL and Intel’s Open vSwitch acceleration solution Solution Brief | Accelerate SRv6 Processing
OvS ovsdb server
ovs-vswitched DPDK netdev FPGA Lib of-proto QEMU vHost Port Representor dpif- netdev VM VM vDPA Virtio host PMD OPAE virtio-net virtio-net
User Space
vfio-pci virtio-net Kernel Space
VF VF VF PF
SR-IOV PCIe Shell
D LAN port D Lookup Fabric R LAN port Intel FPGA PAC N3000
Host Host
OvS VM VM1 VM2 OvS VM VM2 Control (S/W) QEMU QEMU Control (S/W) QEMU
VirtIO (vDPA) VirtIO (vDPA)
Datapath Datapath OvS Fast Path OvS Fast Path Intel FPGA PAC N3000 Intel FPGA PAC N3000 QSFP28 QSFP28 2x25G
Figure 2. Datapath after migration
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Service Assurance with Port Mirroring
OvSVM VNF1 VNF2 vProbe Control (S/W) App
User Space
Mirroring Flow Install
Datapath OvS Fast Path Intel FPGA PAC N3000
Table 1. HCL’s OvS acceleration solution feature roadmap
Design features Enhanced OvS features (proposed)-Phase 1 Advanced features (proposed)-Phase 2 Host IF • VirtIO 1.0 (0.95 with vDPA) • 9K jumbo frames (burst • Multiple Qs/virtual function (VF) memory + CCB) • Live migration • Virtio-net PF Network • OvS: Virtual Extensible LAN • IPv4 tunneling • L2VPN/L3VPN (VXLAN)/TEP without Link support • MPLSoUDP/GRE Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) • IPv6 tunneling support • OvS: VXLAN/TEP with LACP • Virtual LAN (VLAN) port support • Management • OvS v2.9.2 kernel • Flow update • DPDK in-band/kernel • Flow update MBO-based logic rate-500K custom MBO in-band rate-1M • VXLAN routing • Flow table update- DPDK-based 500K frames per second (fps) Pipeline • Rate limiting per VF • Service assurance • Bi-directional quality Improvement • Queue scheduling with port mirroring of service (QoS) • • CT security group • Hardware multicast support
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Groundbreaking Performance for the Next Generation
About HCL
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