On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 03:31:10PM -0700, Dan Wendlandt wrote: > [Agent or VIFDriver] > This plugin has an agent that corrects only port information. Another > solution is plugin-specific VIFDriver/InterfaceDriver that > plugs interface, gets port information and sends it to Quantum Server. > The reason why I modified agent: there are some discussions about plugging > a network interface around F summit. 1. Plugin specific > codes should be separate from nova. 2. VIFDriver should be focused on > only > plugging (work something required to plug: e.g.. > VIFDriver for Cisco plugin finds which device to plug). > But, Ryu plugin has plugin-specific VIFDriver(and InterfaceDriver) that > plugs VIF and corrects port information. It is similar to > NEC Plugin's VIFDriver for Essex. Is this acceptable? > Or, plugin developer can choice it with considering trade-off between code > separation and behavior simplification. > > > The Ryu vif-driver is in the Quantum repo, which in general is bad and has led > to breakage as things change in Nova, and the vif-driver that is not in nova > gets out of date. Thus, I'd rather arrive at a model where all vif-drivers > are > in Nova.
Right now I'm addressing elimination of Ryu specific vif driver by replacing OVS's with iface-id in ovsdb. > What we want to avoid is complex and frequently changing logic in the Nova > vif-plugging. What would be nice to arrive at is if we could get a common > model used by many plugins to report information from the vif-plugging back to > Quantum. With that, Quantum would have a way of providing data to Nova (i.e., > the data returned by the port create request) and Nova would have the ability > to report any data resulting from the plug back to Quantum. Between the two, > I > think we should have most bases covered. This founds like a good topic for > the > Grizzly summit. I'll add it to my list of topics to suggest :) Yes, this will be very useful. -- yamahata -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack Post to : netstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~netstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
