Hello!
I am supervising a student working on NF offloading through the DPA cores in a BF3.
The project is stuck figuring out how to forward packets from the DPA down towards the host server.
Are there maybe some examples or documentation you could point us to?
His original question is below:
Hi, I’m working on BF3 and I’m trying to find a way to forward the packet to the host after processing by flexIO API in bluefield3 DPA.
Is there any way capable with flexIO to directly steering the packets to the host using steering table flow?
Or is it supposed to use the OVS switch? In DPU Mode, OVS can have representors with a VF port towards the host. Is it possible to forward the packets from DPA using the VF ports and offload them on hardware?
Also, I haven’t found anything relevant about the DPA in NIC mod. Wonder if it is possible to forward packets directly in NIC mod.
Thanks a lot!