Hello Stackers,

I've put together an etherpad [0] for the summary of the nova/neutron session from the PTG in the Croke Park Hotel breakfast area and included it as a plain text export on this email. Please feel free to edit or reply to this thread to add/correct anything I've missed.

Cheers,
-melanie

[0] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/nova-ptg-rocky-neutron-summary

*Nova/Neutron: Rocky PTG Summary

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/nova-ptg-rocky L159

*Key topics

  * NUMA-aware vSwitches
  * Minimum bandwidth-based scheduling
  * New port binding API in Neutron
  * Filtering instances by floating IP in Nova
* Nova bug around re-attaching network interfaces on nova-compute restart -- port re-plug and re-create results in loss of some configuration like VLANs
    * https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1670628
  * Routed provider networks needs to move to placement aggregates

*Agreements and decisions

* For NUMA-aware vSwitches, we'll go forward with a config-based solution for Rocky and deprecate it later when we have support in placement for the necessary inventory reporting bit (which will be implemented as part of the bandwidth-based scheduling work). We'll use dynamic attributes like "physnet_mapping_[name] = nodes" to avoid the JSON blob problem (Cinder and Manila do this) and thusly we'll avoid having to deprecate any additional YAML config file or JSON blob based thing when the placement support is available.
    * Spec: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/541290/
  * On minimum bandwidth-based scheduling:
* Neutron will create the network related RPs under the compute RP in placement * It's reasonable to require unique hostnames (across cells, the internet, the world) and we'll solve the host -- compute uuid issue separately
    * Neutron will report the bandwidth inventory to placement
* On the interaction of Neutron and Nova to communicate the requested bandwidth per port: * The requested minimum bandwidth for a neturon port wil be available in the neutron port API https://review.openstack.org/#/c/396297/7/specs/pike/strict-minimum-bandwidth-support.rst@68
      * The work does not depend on the new neutron port binding API
* We'll need not just resources but traits as well on the neutron port and neutron should add the physnet to the port as a trait. We'll assume that the requested resources and traits are from a single provider per port * We don't need to block bandwidth-based scheduling support for doing port creation in conductor (it's not trivial), however, if nova creates a port on a network with a QoS policy, nova is going to have to munge the allocations and update placement (from nova-compute) ... so maybe we should block this on moving port creation to conductor after all * Nova will merge the requested bandwidth into the allocation_candidate request by a new request filter * Nova will create the allocation in placement for bandwidth resources and the allocation uuid will be the instance uuid. Multiple ports with different QoS rules will be distinguishable because they will have allocations from different providers * As PF/VF modeling in placement has not been done yet we can phase this feature to support OVS first and add support for SRIOV after the PF/VF modelling is done
    * Nova spec: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/502306/
    * Neutron spec: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/508149
* On the new port binding API in Neutron, there is solid progress on the Neutron side and the Nova skeleton patches are making progress and depend on the Neutron patch, so some testing will be possible soon (still need to plumb in the libvirt driver changes) * Spec: https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/queens/approved/neutron-new-port-binding-api.html
    * Neutron patch: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/414251/
  * On the Nova bug about re-attaching network interfaces:
* There was a bug in OVS back in 2014 for which a workaround was added: https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/33cc64fb817 * The bug was fixed in OVS in 2015 and is available in OVS 2.6.0 onward: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/e21c6643a02c6b446d2fbdfde366ea303b4c2730 * The old workaround in Nova (now in os-vif) was determined to be causing the bug, so a fix to os-vif was made which essentially reverted the workaround: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/546588 * We can close the bug in Nova once we have a os-vif library release and we depend on its version in our requirements.txt
  * On routed provider networks:
* On the Neutron side, this is already done: https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/latest/admin/config-routed-networks.html
    * Summit videos about routed provider networks:
* https://www.openstack.org/videos/barcelona-2016/scaling-up-openstack-networking-with-routed-networks * https://www.openstack.org/videos/sydney-2017/openstack-networking-routed-networks-new-features


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