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Moshe Levi 2a09ede8fb hardware offload support for openvswitch
In Kernel 4.8 we introduced Traffic Control (TC see [1]) hardware offloads
framework for SR-IOV VFs which allows us to configure the NIC [2].
Subsequent OVS patches [3] allow us to use the TC framework
to offload OVS datapath rules.

This patch adds plug/unplug when using ovs vif 'OVS_ACCELERATION'. The
plug method will lookup the VF representor and connect it to 'br-int',
while the unplug method will remove the VF representor from 'br-int'.

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/8/tc
[2] http://netdevconf.org/1.2/papers/efraim-gerlitz-sriov-ovs-final.pdf
[3] https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-April/330606.html

Co-Authored-By: Stephen Finucane <sfinucan@redhat.com>

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