SmartNICs are introducing a new paradigm in hardware offload/acceleration world - that of introducing additional general purpose processors in the NIC. So try to visualize the NIC as almost its own machine connected to your host. Meaning you can, for example, move your control plane to the NIC.
In this talk, Or Gerlitz and Andy Gospodarek start by describing high level view of this class of NICs. They will then explore common deployment methods and models and help us understand better how this new class of NICs operate by exploring:
- what is out there in terms of networking open source code/features - automation recipes and scripts to onboard software infra - common kernel offload techniques in use - upstream kernel and distro SoC support
Or and Andy will iterate a few working examples that are available for use across devices from multiple, open SmartNIC vendors. They will also discuss approaches of integrating into known cloud orchestration systems like OpenStack and Kubernetes.
More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x14/session.html?talk-taking-control-of-your-SmartN...
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cheers, jamal