[RA-1 RA-2] Hardware Acceleration Support/APIs

[sukhdevkapur]

Should we define the specific requirements for acceleration hardware? What level of detailed specification we want? For example: 1) SmartNIC offload 2) DPDK 3) SRIOV

Do we want to go into the details of FPGA, GPU, etc?

I am assigning both RA1 and RA2 as both need to address this gap.

[pgoyal01]

@sukhdevkapur OpenStack Cyborg project was recently overhauled including the architecture. It includes for example,

Definition Breakdown General Management Framework:

• Resource Discovery
• Life Cycle Management

Accelerators:

• Software: dpdk/spdk, pmem, …
• Hardware: FPGA, GPU, ARM SoC, NVMe SSD, CCIX based Caches, …

[ASawwaf]

@sukhdevkapur , For SRIOV , it will be covered in expectation scopes

[sukhdevkapur]

We will be discussing and addressing this in the Networking Focus Group. Based upon the outcome of decision, this issue will addressed appropriately.

[pgoyal01]

As moved to RM, closing this issue as per Metering of July 27, 2020.