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SR-IOV guide for OVN
The purpose of this page is to describe how SR-IOV works with OVN.
Prior to reading this document, it is recommended to first read the
basic guide for SR-IOV<config-sriov>
.
External ports
The SR-IOV feature is leverage by OVN external
ports.
For more information about external ports, its scheduling and
troubleshoot, please check the External Ports guide <ovn_external_ports>
.
Environment setup for OVN SR-IOV
There are a very few differences between setting up an environment
for SR-IOV for the OVS and OVN Neutron drivers. As mentioned at the
beginning of this document, the instructions from the the basic guide for
SR-IOV<config-sriov>
are required for getting SR-IOV
working with the OVN driver.
The only differences required for an OVN deployment are:
- When configuring the
mechanism_drivers
in the ml2_conf.ini file we should specifyovn
driver instead of theopenvswitch
driver - Disabling the Neutron DHCP agent
- Deploying the OVN Metadata agent on the gateway nodes (controller or networker nodes)
Known limitations
The current SR-IOV implementation for the OVN Neutron driver has a few known limitations that should be addressed in the future:
- Routing on VLAN tenant network will not work with SR-IOV. This is because the external ports are not being co-located with the logical router's gateway ports, for more information take a look at bug #1875852.