Darrell Ball <dlu...@gmail.com> wrote on 18/05/2016 03:56:30 AM: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Liran Schour <lir...@il.ibm.com> wrote: > Conditional monitor of: Port_Binding, Logical_Flow, Multicast_Group > MAC_Binding tables. As a result ovn-controller will be notified only about > records belongs to a datapath that is being served by this hypervisor. > > Hack: Ideally, logical datapath ID should be retrieved from Port_Binding table > and by that conditions should be composed only from logical datapath IDs. > In the meantime we first add the logical port to the conditions and > on retrieval > of port binding record, we add the logical datapath to the conditions. > > ovn-bridge-mappings unit test fails due to the fact that patch ports will not > be created on local bridge if there is no port binded to the logical > datapath on > the local host. > > Is this patch intended to support recursive datapath monitoring ? > > What I mean by this, is if a distributed router (DR) is associated > with a set of logical switches (LSs), then > a HV would filter processing the DR datapath based on whether it has > at least one LS, > with local membership, associated with the same DR datapath; i.e. no > overall membership -> do not process > the DR datapath on this HV. > > I think the association between DR and associated LSs is already > known at the CMS layer. > > Hence, I am wondering if it is optimal for a CMS to pass down this > association directly and > then a check done when processing each DR. > > This can also be done for other nested datapath associations, > although there seems to be > an ordering requirement. > > Is this patch series intended to support this goal ?
As I see it a DR is a router and this patch allows each HV (ovn-controller) to be updated on each DP (logical switch) it has a local vif connected to and all the routed DP's, means the connected router and all the connected logical switches. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
