Queens Series Release Notes

0.1.0

New Features

  • The cyborg framework consists of three core services - API, Conductor and Agent. cyborg-api supports GET/POST/PUT/DELETE operations for accelerators. cyborg-conductor is responsible for handling all API requests that come in via the API service. cyborg-agent is responsible for all the Nova Cyborg interaction. It should be noted that for operations that are not associated with DB change, the cyborg-api could directly call cyborg-agent.

  • Cyborg-Nova interaction was completed in Queens via three specs. The cyborg-nova-interaction spec serves as the main spec defines the interaction mechanism between Cyborg and Nova is via Placement to which cyborg-conductor will periodically report the accelerator resource info, which is acquired via resource tracker functionality in the agent. The cyborg-internal-api spec defines the internal api that is mainly used for internal communication between conductor/agent and driver. The cyborg-fpga-model-proposal spec defines the first tryout of data modeling of accelerator resources via resource provider. Two types of tables (accelerator for base PF and deployable for VF) are defined there and nested resource provider will be utilized in Rocky release.

  • The cyborg-fpga-driver-proposal spec provides the first proposal of a cyborg fpga driver. Two operations are supported - discover and program, although the latter was not finished in Queens and will be in Rocky. The code implementation starts with an Intel QAT card, but more vendor card support should be added later and the driver support should be generalized.

  • The cyborg generic driver provide a full implementation of CRUD operations, for testing purpose only. This is only an examplary implementation of a driver which specific accelerator driver could refer to.

  • The cyborg-spdk-driver-proposal spec defines the first software accelerator driver managed by Cyborg. SPDK is widely used in NVMe SSD user space driver to have a high performance. In Queens only basic operations on SPDK (discover, list, construct/delete subsystem for NVMeOF devices, add/delete ip address for vhost) are supported, more completed operation support should be expected in the next couple releases.