Some of the stuff like '802.1qbh' isn't particularly vendor specific so I'm not sure who will host it and a repo just for that seems like a bit much. Should we just bite the bullet and convert them in the nova tree or put them in os-vif?
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Stephen Finucane <[email protected]> wrote: > os-vif has been integrated into nova since the newton cycle. With the > integration of os-vif, the expectation is that all the old, non-os-vif > plugging/unplugging code found in [1] will be replaced by code that > harnesses > os-vif plugins [2]. This has happened for a few of the VIF types, and newer > VIFs are being added in this manner [3]. However, there are quite a few > VIFs > that are still using the legacy path, and I think it's about time we > started > moving things forward. Doing so allows us to continue to progress on > passing > os-vif objects from neutron and remove the large swathes of legacy code > still > found in nova. > > I've opened a bug against networking-bigswitch [4] for one of these VIF > types, > IVS, and I'm thinking I'll do the same for a lot of the other VIF types > where I > can find definite vendors. Is there anything else we can do though? At some > point we're going to have to just start deleting code and I'd like to avoid > leaving operators in the lurch. > > Cheers, > Stephen > > [1] https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/6205a3f8c/nova/virt/ > libvirt/vif.py#L > 599-L764 > [2] https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/6205a3f8c/nova/ > network/os_vif_util.p > y#L346-L403 > [3] https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-nova-vif-driver > [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/networking-bigswitch/+bug/1704129 > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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