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diff --git a/docs/release/scenarios/os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha/index.rst b/docs/release/scenarios/os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..699f3915 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/release/scenarios/os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +.. _os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha: + +.. OPNFV - Open Platform for Network Function Virtualization +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 + + +************************************************************************************ +User Space Accelerated OVS scenario: os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha Overview and Description +************************************************************************************ + +.. toctree:: + :numbered: + :maxdepth: 4 + + os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha.rst diff --git a/docs/release/scenarios/os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha/os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha.rst b/docs/release/scenarios/os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha/os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..002e1181 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/release/scenarios/os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha/os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha.rst @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 + +This document provides scenario level details for Fraser 1.0 of +deployment with no SDN controller and DPDK enabled Open vSwitch by using +Daisy installer. + +Introduction +============ + +NFV and virtualized high performance applications, such as video processing, +require Open vSwitch to be accelerated with a fast data plane solution that +provides both carrier grade forwarding performance, scalability and open +extensibility. + +A key component of any NFV solution is the virtual forwarder, which should +consist of soft switch that includes an accelerated data plane component. For +this, any virtual switch should make use of hardware accelerators and optimized +cache operation to be run in user space. + +Scenario components and composition +=================================== + +This scenario enables high performance data plan acceleration by utilizing +DPDK enabled Open vSwitch (OVS). This allows packet switching to be isolated +to particular hardware resources (CPUs, huge page memory allocation) without +kernel interrupt or context switching on the data plane CPU. + +Both tenant tunnel and external physnet1 leverage Open vSwitch accelerated +with a fast user space data path, while other network planes are performed +via non-accelerated OVS. + +Scenario Configuration +====================== + +Due to the performance optimization done by this scenario, it is recommended to +set some performance settings in the deploy settings in order to ensure maximum +performance. This is not necessary unless doing a baremetal deployment. Note, +this scenario requires taking the NIC mapped to the tenant and external network +on the compute node and binding them to DPDK. This means it will no longer be +accessible via the kernel. Ensure the NIC supports DPDK. + +40 huge pages of 1G size are allocaled on each compute and network node for DPDK +and VMs by default and currently this can not be re-configured by using +configure files. + +For each compute and network node, One CPU core of each NUMA is dedicatedly +allocated for DPDK by default and currently this can not be re-configured by using +configure files. + +Deploy this scenario by using the '-s os-nosdn-ovs_dpdk-noha' parameter among +others when calling ./ci/deploy/deploy.sh. + +References +========== + +For more information on the OPNFV Fraser release, please visit +http://www.opnfv.org/fraser |