Hardware Acceleration¶

Offload OVS datapath processing to SmartNICs and DPUs.

OVS Acceleration with kernel datapath

Offload OVS flow processing to SmartNIC hardware using the kernel TC datapath.

OVS Acceleration with DOCA datapath

Offload OVS to NVIDIA BlueField DPUs using the DOCA-based datapath.

DPU Support

Running OVN-Kubernetes with DPU offload.

DPU Gateway Interface

Gateway interface configuration on DPU-accelerated nodes.

Derive From Management Port

Deriving hardware-offload configuration from the management port.