
In Kernel 4.8 we introduced Traffic Control (TC see [1]) hardware offloads framework for SR-IOV VFs which allows us to configure the NIC [2]. Subsequent OVS patches [3] allow us to use the TC framework to offload OVS datapath rule This patch adds the VIF_TYPE_OVS_ACCELERATION to portbindings [1] http://netdevconf.org/1.2/papers/efraim-gerlitz-sriov-ovs-final.pdf [2] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/738176/ [3] https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-April/330606.html Partial-Bug: #1627987 Change-Id: I41c0a44ebe5e886c689de9fbd7fadb9cb549dc68