This work is only for CX6-DX. Even though Bluefield-2 embeds an CX6-DX, it should not be confused with the work in this story. This story is very similar to CX-5 offload, except that there are more flows that can be offloaded. The tool https://github.com/Billy99/ovn-kuber-traffic-flow-tests can check if flows would fail after offloading. We also need to ensure that those flows are actually offloaded. CI jobs should also be added.

1) Get a CX-6 DX NIC (so not a BF-2 with CX-6) to do manual testing first. Verify the flows as described above. NOTE: It is actually better to test with non-bluefield to remove a layer of complexity as well historically with/without bluefield has an impact on the results.

2) After manual testing of the flows are done, it is recommended to create Jenkins CI for this.

Scenarios

• x86 OpenShift host using TC offoad with BlueField-2 in ConnectX mode (CX-6 Dx)