On 04/22/2015 09:21 AM, Salvatore Orlando wrote: > Polling for port status is the easiest solution. > In some cases excessive polling does not scale very well. > For instance in large cloud with 1000s of compute nodes, this will put a > bit of a strain on the neutron server. > > This why Aaron a while ago implemented [1] for interfacing neutron with > nova. > Basically in this way nova won't have to poll for neutron's port status > - it will receive events for vif plugged and unplugged over a RESTful > interface. > I'm not sure if this is feasible or not, but perhaps you could think > about listening for those events on your container manager. > > Salvatore > > [1] > http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/neutron/tree/neutron/notifiers/nova.py
I think it would be cool to be able to register your own port status callback when you create a port. It would work similarly to the nova notifier, but would call the custom callback instead of the nova API. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
