Hi Following the discussion in yesterday’s ml2 meeting we have updated the nova blueprint and summited a neutron blueprint for the ml 2 changes.
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/libvirt-ovs-use-usvhost https://review.openstack.org/#/c/95805/ https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/ml2-use-dpdkvhost https://review.openstack.org/#/c/107797/1 I would like to thank everyone for their feedback so far, especially irena and kyle for your input on the implementation and recommending that we Bring this feature to the ml2 sub meeting. I look forward to progressing this feature for the juno release. Regards sean From: Czesnowicz, Przemyslaw Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 1:55 PM To: Irena Berezovsky; OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Cc: Mooney, Sean K; Czesnowicz, Przemyslaw Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][ML2] Support dpdk ovs with ml2 plugin Hi, We were looking at this solution in the beginning, but it’s won’t work with opendaylight. With opendaylight there is no agent running on the node so this info would have to be provided by opendaylight. Thanks Przemek From: Irena Berezovsky [mailto:ire...@mellanox.com] Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 8:31 AM To: Czesnowicz, Przemyslaw; OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Cc: Mooney, Sean K Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][ML2] Support dpdk ovs with ml2 plugin Hi, For agent way to notify server regarding node specific info, you can leverage the periodic state report that neutron agent sends to the neutron Server. As an option, the ML2 Mechanism Driver can check that agent report and depending on the datapath_type, update vif_details. This can be done similar to bridge_mappings: https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/master/neutron/plugins/ml2/drivers/mech_openvswitch.py#43 BR, Irena From: Czesnowicz, Przemyslaw [mailto:przemyslaw.czesnow...@intel.com] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:20 PM To: Irena Berezovsky; OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Cc: Mooney, Sean K Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][ML2] Support dpdk ovs with ml2 plugin Hi, Thanks for Your answers. Yep using binding:vif_details makes more sense. We would like to reuse VIF_TYPE_OVS and modify the nova to use the userspace vhost when ‘use_dpdk’ flag is present. What we are missing is how to inform the ml2 plugin/mechanism drivers when to put that ‘use_dpdk’ flag into vif_details. On the node ovs_neutron_agent could look up datapath_type in ovsdb, but how can we provide that info to the plugin? Currently there is no mechanism to get node specific info into the ml2 plugin (or at least we don’t see any). Any ideas on how this could be implemented? Regards Przemek From: Irena Berezovsky [mailto:ire...@mellanox.com] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:08 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); Czesnowicz, Przemyslaw Cc: Mooney, Sean K Subject: RE: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][ML2] Support dpdk ovs with ml2 plugin Hi, For passing information from neutron to nova VIF Driver, you should use binding:vif_details dictionary. You may not require new VIF_TYPE, but can leverage the existing VIF_TYPE_OVS, and add ‘use_dpdk’ in vif_details dictionary. This will require some rework of the existing libvirt vif_driver VIF_TYPE_OVS. Binding:profile is considered as input dictionary that is used to pass information required for port binding on Server side. You may use binding:profile to pass in a dpdk ovs request, so it will be taken into port binding consideration by ML2 plugin. I am not sure regarding new vnic_type, since it will require port owner to pass in the requested type. Is it your intention? Should the port owner be aware of dpdk ovs usage? There is also VM scheduling consideration that if certain vnic_type is requested, VM should be scheduled on the node that can satisfy the request. Regards, Irena From: loy wolfe [mailto:loywo...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:00 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Cc: Mooney, Sean K Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][ML2] Support dpdk ovs with ml2 plugin i think both a new vnic_type and a new vif_type should be added. now vnic has three types: normal, direct, macvtap, then we need a new type of "uservhost". as for vif_type, now we have VIF_TYPE_OVS, VIF_TYPE_QBH/QBG, VIF_HW_VEB, so we need a new VIF_TYPE_USEROVS I don't think it's a good idea to directly reuse ovs agent, for we have to consider use cases that ovs and userovs co-exists. Now it's a little painful to fork and write a new agent, but it will be easier when ML2 agent BP is merged in the future. (https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/modular-l2-agent-outline) On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Czesnowicz, Przemyslaw <przemyslaw.czesnow...@intel.com<mailto:przemyslaw.czesnow...@intel.com>> wrote: Hi We (Intel Openstack team) would like to add support for dpdk based userspace openvswitch using mech_openvswitch and mech_odl from ML2 plugin. The dpdk enabled ovs comes in two flavours one is netdev incorporated into vanilla ovs the other is a fork of ovs with a dpdk datapath (https://github.com/01org/dpdk-ovs ). Both flavours use userspace vhost mechanism to connect the VMs to the switch. Our initial approach was to extend ovs vif bindings in nova and add a config parameter to specify when userspace vhost should be used. Spec : https://review.openstack.org/95805 Code: https://review.openstack.org/100256 Nova devs rejected this approach saying that Neutron should pass all necessary information to nova to select vif bindings. Currently we are looking for a way to pass information from Neutron to Nova that dpdk enabled ovs is being used while still being able to use mech_openvswitch and ovs_neutron_agent or mech_odl. We thought of two possible solutions: 1. Use binding_profile to provide node specific info to nova. Agent rpc api would be extended to allow agents to send node profile to neutron plugin. That info would be stored in db and passed to nova when binding on this specific host is requested. This could be used to support our use case or pass other info to nova (i.e name of integration bridge) 2. Let mech_openvswitch and mech_odl detect what binding type to use. When asked for port binding mech_openvswitch and mech_odl would call the agent or odl to check what bindings to use (VIF_TYPE_OVS or VIF_TYPE_DPDKVHOST) So, what would be the best way to support our usecase, is it one of the above ? 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